Re: Unable to Boot From /dev/hdd

["naveed" <naveed@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

dear imtiaz
aas salaam vaikum
the prob u r facing i faced the soln is the linux boot should be within the
8 gb of ur hdd that means 1023 cylinders.

the first or boot partition should be in the first 8 gb of hdd

try this.
good luck
naveed quadri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Imtiaz" <imtiaz0@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [LIG] Unable to Boot From /dev/hdd


> are you people talking abut a extra hard disk or is
> this discussion abut booting from a CD.. I tried a 20
> Gb hard disk install with win2k and win98 on 2 other
> partitions and after a lot of experiments and crashed
> win2k installs I came up with the rescue.... here it
> is:
>
> 1. create a 16-20Mb /boot partition on ur hard disk
> and on being peompted where to install LILO specify
> "first sector of boot partition" not MBR of
> /dev/hda... the native and swap can be on the CD or
> anywhere u want them to be (I havent tried the CD
> thing and so I'm not sure if it's possible)
> 2. Next boot into linux using the boot floppy(dont
> forget to make one!:).... mount the C drive which is
> ur /dev/hda1.... then use this command to transfer the
> boot files to the C drive
> dd if=/dev/hdaX of=/mnt/c/bootlnx bs=512 count=1
>
> here /dev/hdaX is ur boot partition and /mnt/c is the
> mount point for hda1
>
> 3. reboot into windows and edit the boot.ini file by
> inserting this line in the [boot] section
>
> c:\bootlnx="Whatever ur distro is "
>
>
> that's it shuld work
>
> PS: if u'r not using WIN2K then u cud use Loadlin to
> do this stuff as boot.ini wont be available....
> do the dd stuff to the same directory where u have
> loadlin executive and then use this command
>
> loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd init=3
>
> assuming ur using the vmlinuz boot img
>
> --- hari  <hari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have tried doing it already but when i do that I
> > again get
> > a warning that bios drive 0x82(/dev/hdd) may not be
> > accessible.
> >                 Hari
> >
> > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 01:09:49 -0800 (PST)
> >  arvind clemente <rwind4197@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > *This message was transferred with a trial version
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> > > Hi hari
> > > The problem is with lilo
> > > use the loadlin utility from your cd adnd boot
> > linux
> > > then manually edit you
> > > lilo and change theline that says
> > > boot=/dev/hdd
> > > root=/dev/hddx (where x is your root partition no)
> > > then rerun lilo from prompt to activate the
> > changes
> > >
> > > arvind
> > >
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