I have just tried to install knoppmyth R5A16 without any luck. I can get through the install process ok, but when my system reboots it locks up right after the "boot from cd" bios msg.

I can install and run R5A16 on my computer using VMWARE but not on my actual system.

Has anyone else had any problems?

I have the following system

P4 3G Prescott
Gigabyte 8IPE1000Pro2
40GB ATA 100 drive
160GB SATA
1GB Ram
DVICO Fusion Plus

The key to your problem is probably, why is it still trying to boot from CD?

- Are you taking the CD out of the drive?

- Is the HD listed as a boot device in the BIOS (check your boot order)

- Does it think the HD is not bootable for some other reason? (Search the forum there about 3-4 reasons for this problem, including the drive not being installed as the primary master, needing to jumper as CS or MA depending on your BIOS and MoBo chipset, the drive/partition not being marked as bootable by the formatting utility, ...)

I have found that the Western Digital HDD can be real pricks when it comes to jumper settings. I find that when they are on a channel by themselves they need to be set to CS (Cable Select) and should be on the last connector of the IDE lead.

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TJC and GIRKERS thanks for the reply


I may have been a bit misleading about the cdrom booting bit. My BIOS has BOOT FROM CD message as it scans the drive for any bootable disks. If it finds a bootable disk it boots if not it scans the next cdrom drive for a bootable disk, displaying a boot from cd msg each time.

I removed the CD from the drive and the bIOS is set to boot from the IDE master.

When I tried a manual install after the auto install failed I found that there were no bootable partitions.

The problem is I have no idea how to fix the problem in linux as I pretty new with it.

Search the forum young Jedi!

Seriously, there's a very nice recent posting about how to troubleshoot and fix this problem. The critiacl search terms are probably "bootable" "fdisk" "lilo" . Remember to click the radio button for "Search for all terms".

Oooo... I didn't notice the SATA bit at first... You may have to fiddle with you're lilo.conf to make it use the right drive too.