-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok, definately post the first 512 bytes of /dev/hda and hda1. Also, now that I'm thinking furtuer, is /dev/hda1 really at the start of the drive or is it insanely far up the drive? Joshua b. Jore Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 http://www.greentechnologist.org On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Brian wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Mike Hicks wrote: > > > Yeah, look and see if the /proc/ide directory exists, and if there's > > anything in there. > > I'll check tonight along with posting my dmesg. > > > I'm curious, though, how the system could be booting up without mounting > > the disk.. Is there also have a SCSI drive in the system? > > There's no SCSI hard disks, just a SCSI CD-RW on an AHA-2940. I presume > the partitions hda3, hda5 and hda6 are mounting fine since the mount from > fstab as the system boots. > > I have, however, been seeing some odd problems with my MBR. If I reload > LILO, linux boots fine but trying to boot off of /dev/hda1 just gives me > an infinite loop of "unexpected EOF". If I do an fdisk /mbr and try to > install Win98 on hda1, the reboot hangs. Win2K installs fine, but if I > reload LILO I have the same EOF message. My current workaround is to set > boot=/dev/hda3 instead of /dev/hda in lilo.conf, then do a dd if=/dev/hda3 > of=boot.img bs=512 count=1 and boot the boot.img from Win2K's > boot.ini. My computer boots fine, I can boot either Win2K or LILO from > the Win2K menu. The only down side is that I can't mount /dev/hda1 under > linux. Yes, it's formatted FAT32 :-) > > Now that I can painlessly boot into linux and use my FTP method for > copying to and from partitions, this is not such a big issue. It's still > bothersome though and I's like to find out what's going on. > > -Brian > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OpenBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Q5DufexLsowstzcRAuIhAKDbT+r/4S5Teb65rgyNUqesIe5RFwCg7sO0 mzv5Xl/cWCo/k2EfuRbw4A4= =3riK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----