On 3/1/06, Jim Patterson <jim_patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > am using > DFI K8T800 IP0-ALF motherboard > Award BIOS v 6.00 PG > with ST340014A > > After installing linux it just hang like it can't see the hard drive. > Went into the BIOS and tried adjusted boot order from CDROM 2nd HD0 > changed to 1st HD0 then HD1 and it still hangs. > > Went into linux rescue and reinstalled grub to hd(0,0). Boot is on > /dev/hda1. > Still hangs. > > Tried to reinstall again and still no luck. > > I am now trying to make a bootdisk and must not be doing this correctly. > > I use a rescue disk and chroot /mnt/sysimage > nfs mount another system and then go to that partition and try to run > mkbootdisk --iso > but it seems that whatever parameters that I put in don't work. > I am trying to create an iso image that would boot my system since it > seems to refuse to boot from HD. I have done this before in day of old > with floppies and just left the floppy in there and whenever the system > rebooted it worked fine. > If you have an idea of why it may not be booting using the HD, I'd be > interested in that also. > Please provide additional hard drive info, i.e. master/slave/cs, shares cable with CD-ROM, partitioning, etc.
