I have tried to install 3 times. each time I am prompted to remove the cd and press enter to reboot. each time the machine goes right past hda and tries to boot from the floppy. There is absolutely no indication that there is anything on hea at boot. Since I have nothing on the hd can I get to fdisk from the install cd?

I am trying to install on a P III 450 with 256 meg Wintv PVR 350 and brand new seagate 80 gig. Machine works fine with XP and wintv2000.

Thanks

Paul

When you remove the CD and reboot, upon rebboting go into BIOS setup and change the boot options so that it looks at hda first instead of looking to the floppy or the CDROM drive. Maybe that will work.

Onion

No, I've tried to change that. It's as though hda doesnt even exist. I had mandrake 9.1 on this disk prior to the installation so I know that the is bootable but it simply does nothing on boot. Wen I list is as the only boot device on the machine I get a no system disk found error


Thsnks for the suggestion

Paul

Boot from the KnoppMyth CDROM like you were going to install.
When the menu comes up type: <ALT><F2> to get to the 2nd
virtual console. At the prompt type: fdisk -l /dev/hda
Tell us what the output is.
Dale

Here is the output of

#fdisk -l /dev/hda


Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 349 2803311 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 350 459 883575 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 460 1244 6305512+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 1245 9729 68155762+ 83 Linux

I don't know if this makes any difference but I just looked at the bios configuration of my machine and bios reports ide hard drive 0 as being 14495 MB. I didn't think to look at this before as I had installed Mandrake 9.1 on this drive and run it hours before installing mythtv. Tha machine is an IBM6862-n1u P III 450.

Paul

I had exactly the same problem.
Installed "bare" Debian. No boot. Erased & redefined all partitions.
Still no boot.

Finally tried install of Win2K, and when I rebooted, got a LILO message!

I'm thinking you need to wipe the MBR on that hard drive.

A DOS diskette with FDISK and the command:

FDISK/MBR

should do it. Then retry the install.

Hi,

I had the exact same problem on my dual drive system. What I did was edit the lilo.cnf file by commenting out some offending lines. After I did this, I reran lilo to rewrite the mbr, then rebooted.

I'm now configuring MythTV after entering my root password.

For info on what helped me, go here: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... ht=boot+cd

What you need to know is in the first post. Also, if you continue to get another error message after commenting out the 2 lines, just reedit lilo.cnf and scroll to the bottom. The offending lines for me (that I commented out also) was in the "OTHER" section (I had XP).

Good luck!

The issue might be related to the version of LILO that is in the system.

Doesn't seem as if the system disk is marked bootable.
Boot the KnoppMyth CD and once again at the menu type
<ALT><F2> so at the second virtual
console type fdisk /dev/hda. This will bring up
the Command (m for help): fdisk prompt. Then type
a<RETURN>1<RETURN>
w<RETURN>q<RETURN>

This will mark partition /dev/hda1 as bootable. Then reboot without the CDROM.

On a side note:
This is my first post! Cesman, Xsecrets et al. Thanks for all of your work on Knoppmyth. I wish there was something I could help with. I'm just a lowly php programmer...

Back to the topic on hand:
I just want to confirm that this solution did work for me. I'm assuming it's worked for the others since no one has continued this thread.

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