Can't get system to boot or mkbootdisk

[Jim Patterson]

Kam Leo wrote:

>On 3/2/06, Jim Patterson <jim_patterson at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>Kam Leo wrote:
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>>>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
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>Some CDROM drives can cause problems when they share the same channel
>as the hard drive. Try moving the CDROM to IDE1.
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Yep, I removed the CDROM drive from the system and it booted just 
fine.   Re-installed the CDROM and it failed.  Can't remember exactly 
why I did it, but I then changed the ribbon cable and re-installed the 
CDROM and it worked fine.