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eydaimon

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Posted: Oct. 26 2007,22:17

The problem isn't with the instal. the install goes smoothly, the question is why Lilo doesn't boot?

My USB drive is not a flash drive, but a mini hdd.

The USB drive shows up as /dev/sda

I made a 50 mb /dev/sda1 partition with ext2
I made the remaining into FAT32 on /dev/sda2(so I can boot it in linux and also access all data from both windows and linux).

I made MyDSL dir to be in /dev/sda2 and backups to be on /dev/sda2

lilo seems to install fine.

Then during boot, I select to boot form USB boot device... and all I get is that "L"

using grub I just get a failure saying no OS was found. (I think from the bios)

Any ideas?

roberts

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Posted: Oct. 27 2007,04:13

If you get the grub menu then at least you know your bios is attempting to boot from it and can read the mbr. My first suggestion is to add a waitusb to the boot options. This will allow time for the usb drive to register. Pressing e from the grub menu will allow you to specify this.

eydaimon

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Posted: Oct. 27 2007,04:53

I'm not getting a grub menu. The bios gives an error saying there's no OS available to boot. It gives me the same error if I try to boot from my floppy drive which I don't have.