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#1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 05:30 PM

Hi Guys
I just set rh9 up on a machine with 2 ide drives on the primary channel and
a cdrom on the secondary
I manually configured the partitions with disk druid as follows:
hda:
/boot 200mb (1st partition on drive)
/ 7gb
/home 10gb
swap 2gb (it made this an extended partition)

hdb:
/clients
/data
/mp3

the install went fine but the system wont boot - after the bios screens it
just stops saying "GRUB" or "LI" (I tried Grub and Lilo as boot loaders). I
tried the "force primary partition" option when creating /boot, I tried
linux rescue and used fdisk to make /boot the boot partition... that didnt
seem to work either. I'm sure it's some terribly common, rtfm-type newbie
thing I've done wrong, can anyone help?
cheers
Lucas

#2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 05:30 PM

Hi all
I ha dmy drives set to "normal" mode in the bios rather than LBA, when I
changed them to LBA, Linux booted fine.
cheers

Lucas

"Lucas Young" <lucas_at_@_ihatespam.com> wrote in message
news:a14c6800cccee24fafe3a63b547efc91@news.teranew s.com...
> Hi Guys
> I just set rh9 up on a machine with 2 ide drives on the primary channel
and
> a cdrom on the secondary
> I manually configured the partitions with disk druid as follows:
> hda:
> /boot 200mb (1st partition on drive)
> / 7gb
> /home 10gb
> swap 2gb (it made this an extended partition)
>
> hdb:
> /clients
> /data
> /mp3
>
> the install went fine but the system wont boot - after the bios screens it
> just stops saying "GRUB" or "LI" (I tried Grub and Lilo as boot loaders).
I
> tried the "force primary partition" option when creating /boot, I tried
> linux rescue and used fdisk to make /boot the boot partition... that didnt
> seem to work either. I'm sure it's some terribly common, rtfm-type newbie
> thing I've done wrong, can anyone help?
> cheers
> Lucas
>
>

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