New Debian Install - HELP!

[Steve Holmes]

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I couldn't boot into either.  What I did in the mean time, I created a
lilo boot disk from my slackware installation and that allows me to
boot into both systems.  So I think you may have hit the nail on the
head when you mentioned the BIOS losing the boot settings.  I sure
wish we could get a good talking BIOS.

Anyway, I'm about to go and try installing Deb again but this time
write the lilo boot image to the floppy for the time being.  Hopefully
I can do that to get the kernel matched up.

Thanks for the help so far.

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 04:34:21PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> 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
> 
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> 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.
> > 
> 
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