Topic: problems with install

[Gregg Larson]

I am trying to install my V5.0 on a new computer but having problems after what looks like a normal install. After I go thru the install and switch my boot sequence to boot from the HDD first it just stops when rebooting at the mesage
"verifying DMI pool data....... which comes just after the PCI device listing.
It doesnt go to the next step of showing the boot device, just sits there. I am installing on a new generic PC from my original boot/install CD which I used to set up the server I have been using for the past several years and finally died. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

[Nathan Fowler]

This looks like a hardware issue.

[Gregg Larson]

Hi,

This is a few month old PC that I was running Win98SE perfectly on until I reformatted the drive and installed the esmith program.  Does something need to be changed in the bios to boot a Linux system? I dont remember doing anything special before.  This was a system that originally came with Linux on it which I reformatted and loaded Win98 on.  Could the hardware problem not show up on Win98 but cause a problem on linux?  Thanks.

Gregg

[boris]

It looks like master boot record doesn't get updated during install.
Try to boot from floppy disk (you created one right?) and if it boots fine run lilo -v as root, to update loader in the MBR. Also, if boot from floppy disk successful, check if Linux sees full drive size by typing df and checking size of the partitions created. Sometimes BIOS misreporting geometry of harddrive and linux needs to be installed with selecting NORMAL mode instead of LBA or AUTO.
Yet another (rare) case preventing MBR from being updated is BOOT sector Antivirus protection in the BIOS. Disable if its enabled.