New Debian Install - HELP!

[Gregory Nowak]

-----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 at EU.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAkjxN/0ACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyATEgCfUsSMrgKJqUpfl7CvKKsZObEJ
DP0AnR00vXyF0VwDSr6mrzlTATLD/d1Q
=tem+
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----