[SWLUG] Transferred disk but wont boot

[Neil Jones]

Mark Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:46:28 +0100, Neil Jones <neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk>  
> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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
>> neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk
>>     
>
> 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
Yes, after I asked the question I started to form the same conclusion. 
The disk itself should be fine. I will need some
expert help with this. I was thinking it was just a setting but I had 
tried everything I could.

Neil


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