> Would there be some reason for an install to fail, boot failure not seeing
> harddrive boot record, with only ONE partition , no swap.
> The partition starts at the beginning of drive. Everything goes great
> untillthe reboot. everytime.
> Keep in mind it failed no matter how many partitions it had. The hardware
> is fine. I just put SuSE 9 on it and decided to try Debian.
* Make sure you installed Linux on hda1, not hda.
* I always put the bootloader (lilo in my case) at the beginning of the
drive (hda), not the "/" partition (hda1), but it may work either way.
* Make sure you HAVE a bootloader.
* Get a bootable removable medium (SuSE 9 CD 1 should work) and try to
boot the hard drive using that.
* This isn't a cause of the boot failure, but you might want to consider a
little swap (you can even make a small [like 5MB] swapfile). Maybe it's
superstition, but I always heard the OS cached with wild abandon until
it hit swap.
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