Can't get system to boot or mkbootdisk

[Jim Patterson]

Kam Leo wrote:

>On 3/1/06, Jim Patterson <jim_patterson at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>am using
>>DFI K8T800 IP0-ALF motherboard
>>Award BIOS v 6.00 PG
>>with ST340014A
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>>After installing linux it just hang like it can't see the hard drive.
>>Went into the BIOS and tried adjusted boot order from  CDROM  2nd HD0
>>changed to 1st HD0 then HD1 and it still hangs.
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>>Went into linux rescue and reinstalled grub to hd(0,0).  Boot is on
>>/dev/hda1.
>>Still hangs.
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>>Tried to reinstall again and still no luck.
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>>I am now trying to make a bootdisk and must not be doing this correctly.
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>>I use a rescue disk and chroot /mnt/sysimage
>>nfs mount another system and then go to that partition and try to run
>>mkbootdisk --iso
>>but it seems that whatever parameters that I put in don't work.
>>I am trying to create an iso image that would boot my system since it
>>seems to refuse to boot from HD.   I have done this before in day of old
>>with floppies and just left the floppy in there and whenever the system
>>rebooted it worked fine.
>>If you have an idea of why it may not be booting using the HD, I'd be
>>interested in that also.
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>Please provide additional hard drive info, i.e. master/slave/cs,
>shares cable with CD-ROM, partitioning, etc.
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40 Gig Seagate connected as master on IDE0
/boot 125MB
/     LVM  38 GB
CDROM connected as slave on IDE0