Subject: Re: trouble booting from tiny installation.
To: Carrie Jones <carrie@cjones.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/30/2002 21:39:53
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 10:06:23PM -0600, Carrie Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a 486 with 8 megs of memory so I used the 1.6 tiny installation.
> Nothing seemed really wrong with the actual install, but after I configure
> everything get the root password set and try to reboot, my boot selector
> says there is no operating system on the disk that I've selected. So I
> tried booting from the floppy to the prompt, where I then asked it to boot
> the disk (wd1a). It says no such device configured. So then I boot the
> floppy all the way through and mount / and /usr. Everything seems fine.
> I can get to everything after I mount it, but am not able to boot it. I
> have included the disklabel I ran on it and the fdisk. It looked fine to
> me, but maybe I'm missing something?

Does "cylinders: 1023 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63" match the BIOS
idea of the disk ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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