From: Willie Lim (wlim@gdstech.GRUMMAN.COM)
Date: 09/13/93 

From: wlim@gdstech.GRUMMAN.COM (Willie Lim)
Subject: Booting from HD on a "pure" Linux machine
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 19:30:12 GMT

I have not been successful getting Linux SLS 1.03 to boot off my hda1
partition. On my system, a 4Mb, 386/33 with a 200+M disk, I have two
Linux partitions: hda1 as my / disk (~200M) and hda2 as my swap disk
(~16M). My machine is a "pure" Linux machine. There are no other
partitions on it; no DOS or any other kind of partitions. I can boot
off my boot floppy without any problem. However when I tried to boot
off my HD, my system hangs everytime. BTW, I did use fdisk to make my
/dev/hda1 partition bootable and had also used the "harddisk" command
from the a1.3 disk.

Any ideas?

Willie