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The install went good (a bit slow because it only has 64mb RAM and is a P2 400 :( ) but after the install I got an invalid system disk error. My bios sees all the hard drives but it will not boot off the hard drives.
I tried doing a grub-install from the rescue section of the Whitebox CD1 I am using but that didnt work either.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Wes
The setup is dead easy (burn to CD, write to flappy, whatnot), and boot from the cd/floppy. The setup from there is pretty straight-forward. That may solve your problem.
Just curious, did you install your root system on to the first disk (primary master)? If not, then you need to juggle things around, since I don't think your BIOS is recent enough to enable booting from alternate IDE disks, it'll always look at the first sector of the first disk.
Your disk may also be getting corrupted or is dying in some way. I find any systems I've tried to set up with smaller and older hard drives just end up being too buggy. Yes, it is frustrating to install "just a webserver" onto a 40 GB disk, but you may find that you need the space anyway, and newer disks will offer a little bit more reliability than an old 1GB. Think of Databases, Scripts, multiple domains, hosting for more people, logs, file uploads, images, etc etc. And if you don't have an excellent backup system in place, and you have these old drives... ;)
Yeah I understand what your saying. I really don't trust these hard drives and no I wouldn't have a good backup system, well of config files anyways. It would only have two websites too so it wouldn't be too bad if something went down. No upset customers.
As for installing on my primary hd, I did put the root "/" on the first hard drive. I even tried reinstalling with just the one hard drive. Still nothing. I will try that link you provided though and see what that does.
Thanks again!
Wes
