fattymcbluff Posted March 19, 2006 CID Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 ok i just install debian on one of my hdd and when i try to boot to the hdd i installed debian to i get an error saying error loading os is therer a way to fix this, will reinstalling fix it? and i would like to fix this befor tues im going to spain for a week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted March 19, 2006 CID Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 Could you be more specific? What boot loader did you install(Probably LILO), and where did you install it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted March 19, 2006 Author CID Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 the boot loader is grub and i installed in on a diffrent hdd i have is there something else i can add? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted March 19, 2006 CID Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 You installed grub on another hard drive? That would be a reason it's not working... also are you sure grub is set up right? If you changed drives around after the install it's probably not configured right anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted March 19, 2006 Author CID Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 ok when i was in the installer i installed to the ide1 slave after it partitoned the drive with ext3 and the swap file,and after it was sone installing it asked me if i wanted to intsall grub as a boot manger and i clicked yes and it installed grub and then it sayed installtion complet and i rebooted and then i got the error Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted March 19, 2006 CID Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 Did you change the drive configuration around since the install? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted March 19, 2006 Author CID Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 nope just installed and tryed to boot and got the error Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted March 19, 2006 CID Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 what's the master drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted March 20, 2006 Author CID Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 master drive as in the hdd? or the drive set to master ? i have a sata drive with my xp installed and two ide drives both set to cs the 80 gig seagate is my stuff drive and the 40 gig wd is the drive i installed to its been partioned with a 1.7 swap file and a 37.2 ext3 file system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Complete Posted March 5, 2007 CID Report Share Posted March 5, 2007 Did this work out? I am going to install Debian on an old laptop computer soon as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted March 5, 2007 CID Report Share Posted March 5, 2007 Debian isn't hard to install.. If I remember correctly you have to have an internet connection if you want to install anything more than a basic command line OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted March 5, 2007 CID Report Share Posted March 5, 2007 Debian isn't hard to install.. If I remember correctly you have to have an internet connection if you want to install anything more than a basic command line OS. I believe you can download the whole thing now on a dvd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Complete Posted March 5, 2007 CID Report Share Posted March 5, 2007 I am currently downloading about a half dozen CD images. I will burn them on this computer and see how it goes on my laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junerian Posted March 5, 2007 CID Report Share Posted March 5, 2007 Dunno much about this sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Complete Posted March 6, 2007 CID Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 Well, I got a Debian CD created from the ISO image (from another computer) and I was able to poke around and read the readme files and examine the CD. Then I moved it to my old laptop computer where I want to install Debian. It seems I need to change the BIOS settings so that I can boot from the CD. So once I did that. Nothing. It even says during startup INITIALIZING BOOT CD and then STARTING WINDOWS 95 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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