Guest roblinux5 Posted September 2, 2006 Report Share Posted September 2, 2006 Hi all, linux n00b here! I have downlaoded and iso'ed mandriva one and got it run fine 'live' from the cd. Now I click 'live install' to get in to copy it to the hard drive. It does this but when I go to reboot, it doesn't get any further than the end of the bios, right where it should start to load (any) os, it stops and nothing happens. No errors are returned from mandriva. There were no other files on the hd before I started to 'live install' I havent done any other configs at all, just run from cd, then click 'live install' I think it might have something to do with a bootloader, as when I try to make one, it fails It is a celeron 1ghz, 512, 2gb Any help appreciated Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 (edited) Welcome, how many HD's and partitions do you have? Maybe the loader is installed on the wrong HD... Edited September 3, 2006 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest roblinux5 Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 Hi ffi There appears to be a few, hd0, hd1, then hd5 hd6 (also fd0 for floppy) on only one physical 2gb hd. Im sorry but I wouldn't know how to tell which one it is installed on. Thanks Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 only one physical 2gb hd Are you sure about this number? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest roblinux5 Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 Umm yes very one harddrive one cdrom one floppy mandriva live appears to have partitioned it for me - having no experience I thought this might be normal? Do you think maybe using a different version of mandriva would be better, ie not using one which boots from the cdrom? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Timothy Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 It is a celeron 1ghz, 512, 2gb I think he meant if you are sure it's a 2GB Hard Drive. 1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM seems awfully modern for a meesly 2GB Hard Drive. During installation, did anything prompt you to choose your boot loader (LILO with graphical, LILO with text, GRUB with graphical, GRUB with text)? Indeed it does sound as if the bootloader may have been misplaced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 The reason they ask is you can repair this from the live CD once its known. But I have to say 2GB does seem very small for a 1Ghz processor.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 My P133 has a 4GB HDD :P. If you're booted from a CD, please do this: fdisk -l and see if you can post the info from this, so we can see the disks and partitions assigned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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