Linux Won't Boot From Hard Drive After Install

[bill666]

Installed Caldera Open Linux on a freshly partitioned 1.2Gb Seagate drive with EZ-Drive LBA installed since elderly PC does not do its own LBA in BIOS.

I accepted the default boot option (there is no DOS partition and only one hard drive).

When I restarted after install Linux does not boot. I didn't make a boot diskette, either.

Where did I go wrong? I previosly successfully installed Red Hat 7 on this PC, though I had a small DOS partition so I could load support for the CD-ROM so I could install.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Bill

 

[bill666]

Solved it myself.

- Booted on the install floppy (created with rawrite).
- When "boot:" prompt appears type "boot /dev/hda1" or wherever you have configured your boot partition.
- After Linux boots (looks like install happening, but it isn't), check your lilo.cnf to see if the boot partition is correct.
- Run /sbin/lilo to commit the changes
- Should now boot from hard drive.

Cheers,
Bill