Hello,
I think there is still one possible problem left. That is if the disk was
BSD labeled by true64unix then alphalinux might not like it. Actually
alphalinux might like it ok, it is aboot that is not so fond of that
disklabel I believe. In that case I think it is recommended to "zap" the
beginning of the disk. To do that one has to get a minimal linux up. The
redhat installation environment should do the trick. Switch to a console
(will alt F2 work?) and type something along the lines of "dd if=/dev/zero
of=/dev/'your_disk_goes_here' bs=1024 count=4096". (This asumes that dd is
in the path...) It will overwrite the first 4MB of the disk with zeros,
and by doing so it will destroy any partitioning information on that disk
(well I hope it does). After that all information on that disk is fried.
Good luck
Sebastian Moeller
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Mike Foley wrote:
>
> A BSD disk label was not setup on your disk. If there is
> no disk label or a BSD disk label on the disk, the RH
> installer does the right thing. If there's a DOS disklabel
> on the disk, it doesn't muck with it, leaving you with
> an unbootable disk.
>
> Restart the install, select Custom install, go into FDISK
> on the disk you want to install too and type b <return>
> then w <return>. That'll write a BSD disk label. Halt the
> system at this point and restart the install as before.
> The RH installer should see that the disk has a BSD
> disk label now and will do the right thing.
>
> Best of luck,
>
>
> mike
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kingmiro [mailto:kingmiro@gmx.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 1:41 PM
> To: axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Bootstrap Failure after Installation of Red Hat Linux 7.0
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I get an " Bootstrap Failure after Installation of Red Hat Linux 7.0 " !!!
>
> Everything works propperly, after I´ve installed Red Hat linux 7.0 the
> machine
> reboots ...
>
> After the start in the SRM-Console, the machine boots automaticaly ...
> But I get the error-code :
> block 0 of dkc1100 is not a valid boot block
> bootstrap failure
>
> --> dkc1100 is my HDD-Drive !
>
> I´ve tried a lot of things nothing helps ..
>
> thankz
>
> http://www.kingmiro.de
>
>
>
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