Yoper Install Problem

mudpark41 · Jan 7, 2005

[Solved]Yoper Install Problem

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I have tried to install Yoper twice now on my computer. I am trying to install it to a standard IDE hard drive and every time I try it never works. I follow all the steps, It tells me my "Yoperating" System is done installing and that I should reboot and it will work, and everytime I try to reboot I get the Error "PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

Can someone help please?

PhoenixMDM · Jan 7, 2005

Have you checked your boot settings in your BIOS? It sounds like it can't find anything to boot off of.

mudpark41 · Jan 7, 2005

The bootloader is on hda and the BIOS is set to boot from the HDD-0 First. I really have no clue why this is happening.

Arkaine23 · Jan 7, 2005

Sounds like the bootloader is not getting installed to the MBR. This is easy to correct if you have a linux live CD. You may in fact be able to chroot to the installed Yoper system by booting the yoper CD but not running the installer. Instead try the command

mkdir /mnt/hda1
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
chroot /mnt/hda1 /bin/bash

Now you're using the installed files and you can edit them. Which bootloader did you use? Lilo or Grub? To reinstall lilo-

/sbin/lilo -v

Not sure about grub... think its just-

grub

if yoper's CD doesn't have these type of tools available when booting from it, you could use something like Knoppix.

mudpark41 · Jan 7, 2005

I was not able to do that in Knoppix, as U could not find the hard drive (rather the Shell could not) and the Yoper setup disk would not allow it either. Any of suggestions as to how this could be fixed?

{PMS}fishy · Jan 7, 2005

mudpark41 said:
I was not able to do that in Knoppix, as U could not find the hard drive (rather the Shell could not) and the Yoper setup disk would not allow it either. Any of suggestions as to how this could be fixed?

Knoppix, sudo passwd on older vserions, set the passwd and then su. On newer versions, just su

than you can mount hdds/partions

To install grub the command it as follows

grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hdX (replace X with partion where /boot resides)

Arkaine23 · Jan 7, 2005

Hmm....

How many HDD's? Any that are SATA like in your sig? How did you partition the IDE drive? Did you choose lilo or grub in the yoper installer?

I'll try to help sort it out, but I need some details.

CrashOveride · Jan 7, 2005

You should be able to do what Arkain said w/ the gentoo live CD...

mudpark41 · Jan 7, 2005

I am not running the RAID right now because Linux on RAID is a pain to install. It is a Standard IDE hard drive with 2 ext3 partitions and 1 linux-swap partition. I have tried both Lilo and Grub and both have not worked. Also I have had this same problem in multiple systems with 2 different Yoper CDs.

Arkaine23 · Jan 8, 2005

I've seen this problem too many times in yoper forums, but have never experienced it myself.

There's the alternate install methods here- http://www.yoper.com/forum2/index.php?showtopic=1551

Vertical_Zer0 · Jan 8, 2005

I had this problem. All I did was reformat the drive and move it to a different IDE channel; now it works fine for some reason.

I think the problem was that my CD-ROM was primary and the drive was secondary, so I switched them and Yoper seemed to like that.

mudpark41 · Jan 8, 2005

Zero, my CD-Rom is the Primary and the Drive is secondary on my IDE chain. Mabye that is the problem. I will switch it over soon.

EDIT: This did fix the problem. Thanks Zero.

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