From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org (linserver.romuald.net.eu.org [63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D0B710B1E for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:33:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 22127 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Oct 2008 16:34:21 -0700 Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:34:21 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: New Debian Install - HELP! Message-ID: <20081011233421.GA22050@localhost.localdomain> References: <20081011084227.GA21623@pillow.holmesgrown.com> <20081011100902.GA21715@pillow.holmesgrown.com> <48F08630.2080403@baechler.net> <20081011193208.GA15615@localhost.localdomain> <20081011215758.GA22409@pillow.holmesgrown.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081011215758.GA22409@pillow.holmesgrown.com> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:33:36 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 When you say that you can't boot, do you mean that you can't boot windows, gnu/linux, or neither? It's possible that with the swaping in and out of drives, you're bios needs to be told to rerecognize 1 or both hard drives. I used to have a machine where this was an issue; if you didn't touch ide drives, everything was fine, if you hooked up a new drive, or simply removed an existing one, you had to go into bios, and set the hds to auto again, else it wouldn't acknowledge the drives are there. Note that just because your livecd is seeing the drives doesn't matter, since linux does it's drive detection and handling without relying purely on what the bios has to say. Perhaps if you can describe what you are, and are not able to boot, and if you can have a sightling verify hd setup in bios, we can try to help more. Greg On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 02:57:59PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > Well, things are even worse now. In trying to isolate my problem, I > took out the new drive that I was installing linux on and replaced it > with my original (second drive) which had my old working slackware on > it and I still can't boot. With my original drive, I even did a lilo > -r /mnt from my slackware CD and that appeared to go fine; I can't say > I've ever experienced this kind of problem before. I'm trying to do > everything to avoid having to completely re-install windows. I > unfortunately need windows on my box for some time yet. For whatever > reason, my MBR won't take the loader or won't boot for me. > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjxN/0ACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyATEgCfUsSMrgKJqUpfl7CvKKsZObEJ DP0AnR00vXyF0VwDSr6mrzlTATLD/d1Q =tem+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----