Ghost 2001 and MBR problem (I think)

[Peter Hemmings]

Hi,
I have just spend a lot of hours trying to get a Ghost image on to an
old dual Boot Linux HD.
I loaded the image OK but at the end of the BIOS it hangs after
reporting "searching for boot on IDE 0 OK" (or similar) with cursor
flashing.
I used gdisk to wipe the HD and used /mbr to re-initialize the mbr.
I have a caddy swap HD and am now on a known good HD with W98 only but
want to play with Linux (again) on my other disk.
On checking HD with disk 1 /status it confirms that it has one primary
partition which is active!
Any suggestions welcome as I am running out of ideas (and time)!?
As a bit of background:
I have a Supermicro P6SBA m/b withe a celeron 333Mhz BUT I have had
problems with the floppy controller and cannot use it, I have to use a
ls120 on "Primary Slave" which has caused all sorts of problems getting
ghost to boot on this box and I have had to revert to an old ATX box to
format and play with Gdisk!!
I know the above is not good, but I think I had done everything even
though it was a very long winded procedure ( I think I will get another
M/B soon).

 

[Stephen Spark]

Hi,
I have just spend a lot of hours trying to get a Ghost image on to an
old dual Boot Linux HD.
I loaded the image OK but at the end of the BIOS it hangs after
reporting "searching for boot on IDE 0 OK" (or similar) with cursor
flashing.
I used gdisk to wipe the HD and used /mbr to re-initialize the mbr.
I have a caddy swap HD and am now on a known good HD with W98 only but
want to play with Linux (again) on my other disk.
On checking HD with disk 1 /status it confirms that it has one primary
partition which is active!
Any suggestions welcome as I am running out of ideas (and time)!?
As a bit of background:
I have a Supermicro P6SBA m/b withe a celeron 333Mhz BUT I have had
problems with the floppy controller and cannot use it, I have to use a
ls120 on "Primary Slave" which has caused all sorts of problems getting
ghost to boot on this box and I have had to revert to an old ATX box to
format and play with Gdisk!!
I know the above is not good, but I think I had done everything even
though it was a very long winded procedure ( I think I will get another
M/B soon).

You would be best to post to a linux newsgroup. Sounds like you'll
have to restore lilo or grub boot manager to the boot sector.
You'll have to boot linux with a boot floppy (sorry) and restore the
boot manager. Or depending on your distro, you may be able to boot
with the cd and restore the boot manager.
Linux needs lilo or grub to boot, if you fdisk /mbr it would restore
Win98s boot record but erase lilo and grub.

Stephen Spark

 

[Peter Hemmings]

In message <[email protected]>,
StephenSpark@?.?.invalid writes
snip

You would be best to post to a linux newsgroup. Sounds like you'll
have to restore lilo or grub boot manager to the boot sector.
You'll have to boot linux with a boot floppy (sorry) and restore the
boot manager. Or depending on your distro, you may be able to boot
with the cd and restore the boot manager.

Yep, thanks I did get an answer from my local Linux group (my problem is
both general and Linux).
As suggested there, I got a Linux distro to install which set up the mbr
and the HD now boots Linux OK.

Linux needs lilo or grub to boot, if you fdisk /mbr it would restore
Win98s boot record but erase lilo and grub.

Hmmm...
Just to clarify the above, if I just re-partitioned the HD without the
/mbr (with fdisk) then loaded W98 again would it not boot because it
will still have a Linux mbr?