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darkarchon
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 Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:39 am Post subject: newbie install: not found any active partition in hdd ? |
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hello,
a newbie here. trying out gentoo here. after 12-15 pages of jumping hoops, opening and closing nano a million times, emerging, mounting, chrooting, unmounting, blah, blah, i finally managed get to a point where the handbook said to do a reboot. *gulp*
so the sucker comes backs up with a wonderful message:
"Not found any [active partition] in HDD
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
what the heck is going on here? what did i do wrong and how do i fix it ? i did my best to follow the installation handbook. but the darn thing is like a puzzle. it has sections upon sections each of them littered with forks in the road, and an indecisive newbie (ala me) has no clue which fork to take.
please forgive my sarcasm. i have been at it for a few hours and this is my 2nd try. i am just frustrated. arrghhhhhh!
please help me! |
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darkarchon
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:47 am Post subject: |
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ok. now i got major problems.
since i could not go anywhere i put in the livecd and hit enter. it started to boot from the livecd.
i switched to the console view and saw the following. these are just some of the messages. there are a whole bunch being spit out in the flaming purple console.
"hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: status timeout : status=0xd0 { Busy }"
finally my heyboard lights start to blink and i get a:
"Kernel panic: attempted to kill init!"
why mr. robbins why. why me. please help!
someone please tell me i dont have to do this all over for a 3rd time ? |
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cyrillic
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Location: Groton, Massachusetts USA
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:36 am Post subject: Re: newbie install: not found any active partition in hdd ? |
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| darkarchon wrote: | so the sucker comes backs up with a wonderful message:
"Not found any [active partition] in HDD
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" |
| darkarchon wrote: | hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hdc: status timeout : status=0xd0 { Busy } |
It is starting to look like a hardware problem ...
Do you have any other bootable media (CD, floppy, etc.) that you can try on this machine ? |
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darkarchon
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:41 am Post subject: |
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hello,
i replaced the cd-rom drive with a 52x drive. i do not get the " timeout waiting for DMA " errors anymore.
but i still do get the "active partition not set hdd" error. how do i set the active parttition on the hdd ?
i can now go into livecd. mount my hdd. and chroot into it. mess around and all. but how do i confirm that the active partition has been set ? |
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darkarchon
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darn..... this sucks.... i need to learn how to read more carefully...... i just saw this line:
| Quote: | | We need to make this partition bootable. Type a to toggle the bootable flag on this partition. If you press p again, you will notice that an * is placed in the "Boot" column. |
i set the "a". and boom. the almighty gentoo has awakened. |
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