I have no clue what this means. I am trying to boot off a HDD install I transplanted into a Ppro (200Mhz), 64mb RAM, 20Gb HDD. The install ation runs on a diffrent computer of mine but I get that error when the Ppro tries to boot it. Does this have anything to do with the amount of hard-disk the old motherboard can take?
I really dont have the slightest clue what this error message is supposed to mean, any help would be greatly appreiated at this point.
note: The computer WILL boot off a live CD but only if I use a strange MBR, its an ISOLINUX problem so I used the alternative recomended by the project "Smart Boot Loader" or something. But this MBR dosent seem to boot anything except CD's as when I tell it to boot HDD it just loops back to its own menu!
Thanks in advance...OK, the installation DOSENT run on the other system, I must have left the CD/flashdrive in or at least it wont work now...
anyway, I think it is lilo thats having problems I think its in the
"root=/dev/hda1" Line of lilo.conf, because I also get an error message reqesting that I change such a value. But /dev/hda1 should be the correct directory!
Is there a way I can check what my devices are being recognised as?
And how do I change lilo.conf if I am not in the actual operating system that the file applies to. Running live CD dosent seem to allow editing even when root -and even if it did, would running the "lilo" command still work?Could I use the Extlinux bootloader insted of lilo?
I have NO idea how to set this up, or if it is possable (but i've been trying anyway to no success)
...I get the following error when I do a HDD install on the drive:
The copying of system files has been completed. Setting up /root/ Setting up /home/dsl/ tar: Removing leading `/' from member names mount: No medium found cp: cannot stat `/mnt/bootimg/boot/isolinux/linux24': No such file or directory umount: /mnt/bootimg: not mounted
Any ideas?, anyone?
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mount: No medium found cp: cannot stat `/mnt/bootimg/boot/isolinux/linux24': No such file or directory umount: /mnt/bootimg: not mounted
The installer script can't find the CD. Usually when mount gripes about `No medium found' it's when somebody tries to mount a non-existant device.
I bet you have two optical drives.
Just as a excercise, try putting a copy of DSL into both optical drives and do the install again. I bet it finds `/mnt/bootimg/boot/isolinux/linux24' this time.Next Page...
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