Trouble installing Knoppix 5.0 Debian
Hello technicians and aspiring technicians!
Here is my problem.... I successfully installed Knoppix 5.0 and set it up as a Telnet/FTP/TFTP/HTTP server (and must say I learnt quite alot doing it!) Then I discovered when I tried to cpio a cdrom to /dev/hda1 that I had done my install on the wrong hd, it was only 3.4GB leaving me a few hundred MB's of space!!
No biggie I figure, reinstall on a 40GB drive. My Award 1007.A Asus P5A bios just hangs and never detects the hd. I mounted the drive using the Knoppix live CD and looked, everything installed there as it should be. I didn't change anything in the Bios so I figured it was a corrupt hd. I've since tried several times on two different hard drives and nothing. I put the hd in a different box and it just drops me into a limited kernel.
I understand PNP OS should be set to disabled and overclocking turned off, it is... There is only one drive (set as master) on IDE0 so there is no confusion there either...
I'm about ready to pull my hair out over this so any help is appreciated!! Please help me get back off my XP drive!!
Thanks!
Fearon
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Here is my problem.... I successfully installed Knoppix 5.0 and set it up as a Telnet/FTP/TFTP/HTTP server (and must say I learnt quite alot doing it!) Then I discovered when I tried to cpio a cdrom to /dev/hda1 that I had done my install on the wrong hd, it was only 3.4GB leaving me a few hundred MB's of space!!
No biggie I figure, reinstall on a 40GB drive. My Award 1007.A Asus P5A bios just hangs and never detects the hd. I mounted the drive using the Knoppix live CD and looked, everything installed there as it should be. I didn't change anything in the Bios so I figured it was a corrupt hd. I've since tried several times on two different hard drives and nothing. I put the hd in a different box and it just drops me into a limited kernel.
I understand PNP OS should be set to disabled and overclocking turned off, it is... There is only one drive (set as master) on IDE0 so there is no confusion there either...
I'm about ready to pull my hair out over this so any help is appreciated!! Please help me get back off my XP drive!!
Thanks!
Fearon
A+, N+, CCENT
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I'm guessing the scenario is 1 desktop, 2 hard drives, he installs linux and it overwrites his boot loader putting its own boot loader in there and he can't boot back into windows.
If the OP could elaborate for me please.
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I'm running out of ideas??
/boot - 500mb
/swap - 1gb
/ - rest of disk
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And yes when I "mount /dev/hda1" I can see vmlinuz, boot and everything else has installed properly. Knoppix-installer reports everything installed successfully with no errors.
I feel like I'm lost in the conversation for some reason.
Have you tried hooking your CD-rom and XP drive to the secondary IDE controller?
And you have tried the Linux hard drive in the primary IDe controller but it still doesn't boot?
You may learn something!