HD Install :: Installing on SATA disk
Just for the record. I cleared out the MBR and went through the process again. Now I get...
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK etc.
Any pertinent help most welcome.
Just for the record. I cleared out the MBR and went thru the process again.
Now Iget...
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK etc..
Any pertinent help welcome.
Since you cleared out the MBR you will need to reinstall grub.
I don't have any SATA disk to help you test this, however, I suspect the following...
The default device map in DSL does not have any sdx items.
You should therefore use the (sd0,1) type specifications on both the kernel and minirt lines.
Since you mentioned using a pendrive, then perhaps you are experiencing a change in device names, ie, when booted from pendirve might be sdaX and the sata drive is sdbY. But when you boot with grub from the SATA drive without the pendrive, there is now no sdbY device, therefore error 15
I would at the first grub screen press 'c' to get a grub command prompt and then use the 'find' command to see what the actual device is and then edit that device specification to the boot lines.
Many thanks for the response.
Apologies, realised what I had done just after posting that double message. Anyway, it would appear that some previous info (mine) is misleading. The DSL load was over (repartioned) previous load of etch. When I tried on a clean machine I got that Verifying dmi pool data freeze. On the basis that reloading DSL with grub then lilo made no diff to the grub Error 15 at that stage, I'm inclined to think that DSL does not overwrite the mbr on a sata load. Furthermore, I ran some mbr create line prior to DSL load and the boot yielded MBR 1FA or similar, which did not try to load partition 1 when selected. Am I making a case here? Then I tried loading etch in a different partition to get a proper mbr. Sure enough the entries for DSL were there. Etch boots OK. DSL displays the penguin then says:-
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount rootfs on 08:01
I tried changing hd0,0 in menu.lst to sd0,0 but that gave me:-
Error 23: Error while parsing number.
Has anybody done a successful DSL on SATA load? If so, what's the secret?
A little more.
I just tried the 'find' command as suggested by roberts.
The 'etch' entries yield (hd0,2), quite correctly.
DSL entries yield Error 15: File not found. ( That figures!)
So far as I am aware, I haven't effected any changes to the standard load.
What does it mean? Anything I can do?
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