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Neil Jones wrote:
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Mark Henderson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:46:28 +0100, Neil Jones <a
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<pre wrap="">I have taken a linux disk out of a dual boot two disk machine and
installed it as a single disk in a machine that used to run windows.
This is a modern distro (mandriva 2008.)
. The machine won't boot. It gets as far as verifying DMA pool data and
hangs.
Can anyone tell me how I can fix this? What is the problem?
Neil
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I'm not really an expert, but as no-one else has replied yet...
Which disk did the two-disk machine boot from? I'm guessing it was the
other one as it sounds like you don't have a MBR (master boot record) on
the disk in question - this is what the PC looks for to know where to go
to boot - the MBR simply says 'go here to find what you need to keep
going'. So, you'll need to get Grub or Lilo or another boot loader
installed on it. There's a few ways I can think of that you could go about
doing that, booting with a rescue disk is probably the easiest. Might be
safest to google or ask wait for someone knowledgable to reply :-)
HTH,
Mark</pre>
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Yes, after I asked the question I started to form the same conclusion.
The disk itself should be fine. I will need some<br>
expert help with this. I was thinking it was just a setting but I had
tried everything I could.<br>
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Neil<br>
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I'm no expert either, particularly with Mandriva (which was Mandrake
last time I used it, shows how long ago that was!). Mandriva install
CD/DVD is also a live disk isn't it, does it have a "repair" option?
IIRC Mandriva is KDE so it probably uses Lilo? So just boot, then
chroot to the installed hdd (not even sure you need to do that; can
also use "lilo -r") then setup your /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo ...
can't see why that won't work. Done same sort of thing on Slackware
using Knoppix before.<br>
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You should only need to change a couple of params to let lilo know the
new drive layout, eg that root=/dev/hda1 or whatever.<br>
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Incidentally since I switched from Slackware to Kubuntu (Jan 08) I've
been using GrUB so things with lilo may have changed a little and I
wouldn't know.<br>
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This may help:
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pbhj<br>
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