From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: Re: Can't boot from hard drive Date: 26 Sep 1992 22:40:19 GMT
In article <lc9ngeINNr6r@paducah.cs.utexas.edu>, glenn@cs.utexas.edu (Glenn G. Lai) writes:
|> I recently got a 207-MB Western Digital Caviar 2200. I first tried allocating
|> the entire drive to DOS; no problems--I could boot from the hard drive. I
|> then repartitioned the drive, reserved /dev/hda1 (31MB) for DOS, and installed
|> 0.97p2. Now I can no longer boot DOS from the hard drive; I've tested this
|> on three different motherboards and three different IDE controllers. Of all
|> the DOS disk utilities I've tried, none complained about any bad sectors.
|> I suspect that my attempt at using lilo (?) caused this to happen. Any
|> ideas on how to fix this?
|>
|>
|> Glenn
|> glenn@cs.utexas.edu
I use LILO and mboot for my HD. They work great. LILO is just used for
boot sector for my Linux partition. Please do
1. install mboot. I just pit it on tsx-11 under pub/linux/GCC/rootdisk.
you have to install it under DOS. Use msdos filesystem to transfter if
you want.
a) down load mboot.tar.Z and put it on Linux partition.
b) unpack it.
c) mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt
d) cp mboot.com mboot.doc /mnt/foobar
e) reboot DOS and run mboot.
2. Get my bootable roodisk from tsx-11 under pub/linux/GCC/rootdisk. Also
get README.rootdisk.
3. boot it and install it on your Linux partition. read README.rootdisk
when you do it. I just installed LILO in the bootsector on my
Linux partition.
4. Reboot. Now you should be able to choose DOS or Linux to boot.