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Author:  mickregan [ Sat May 21, 2005 8:34 pm ]
Post subject:  not found any [active partition] in HDD
Just finifished an auto install and got this message on reboot:

not found any [active partition] in HDD
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

Aaargh!!! What causes that kind of error?

Tried it on both HDDs in sysytem to same error. I think lilo maybe to blame but I'm an XP or BartPE user I have no clue with linux.

Mick

EDIT: Okay found solution. it appears that linux installs can accidental forget to make a partition the "boot" partition.
I loaded from cd again exited to prompt and ran cfdisk.
It was quite clear that none of the Partitions had been made active or "boot". So i toggled the root partition to "boot", quit and typed reboot.
All is well. Yay!!!
Author:  voxtreet [ Fri May 27, 2005 1:40 am ]
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Hi,

I had the same problem as you, using KnoppMyth R5A15.1. Everything installed fine, but when it rebooted it didn't find any boot partition. So I did what you did, used the CD to boot, exited the install, ran cfdisk, and marked root partition as Bootable, and wrote the partition table. For some reason when I reboot, it still does not find any bootable partition.

Any ideas? How to make sure my partition table and MBR are correctly pointing to my root partition (/dev/hda1)?

Thanks!
Author:  voxtreet [ Fri May 27, 2005 10:25 am ]
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OK, I fixed it!

After making the partition bootable and rebooting, I still wasn't able to boot into the hard drive. So I boot up into the KnoppMyth CD again, quit the install program. Then I mounted the hard drive

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

And then changed the root folder to as if I were running off that drive:

chroot /mnt/hda1

Then I ran the lilo configuration:

lilo

The first time, it complained that there was some kind of parse error in the lilo.conf file, so I edited that file (I used pico):

pico /etc/lilo.conf

I found some unknown commands in the first two lines, vga=something or other....obviously seemed out of place since it was before the main comments blurb. So I commented those two lines out with '#'. Saved, and exited pico.

Then I ran lilo again:

lilo

And this time it worked, it reconfigured lilo on my hard drive (in my case, the MBR). I rebooted, and it went into the hard drive and started KnoppMyth!!!

OK...now, to get KnoppMyth working with my PVR-150! :)
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