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cannot get ASL to boot after install

I have been trying to install 1.811 on several systems without success.  I install the software, and the hard drive subesequently will not boot.

I have tried this with two different CD's and  just tried it with a motherboard with 866mhz celeron, via chipset, 4gb drive, agp video, cd drive.

I have suspected that the LILO is not working on other installs, so I zeroed the /dev/hda (with dd) before install.  If I do that, the system does not even boot.  I had to fdisk with dos fdisk -mbr to get "missing operating system".

I waited until the hard drive finished flashing at the end of the install, and rebooted with ctl-alt-del (not reset)

When I booted using bash please, several of the partitions seemed to be incomplete.  the first one at one time had /tmp/.install-log but I did not see any errors there.  Later attempts showed that this partition was empty.

Any ideas what to try next?  Do you always try to install on a zero'ed drive?  The only instance I have had any luck with had a copy of win98 on it, and no other OS.

Also, previously I had installed Red Hat 7.1 and noticed that though Astaro data ended up on the drive after the Astaro install (scratching 7.1 to do so), I would see the Red Hat Lilo graphic pop up.  In those instances I was getting init fail.

Jim Stephens

[ 07 June 2001: Message edited by: jim stephens ]

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0 Harry Goldschmitt over 23 years ago

I'm having essentially the same problem. I've tried a few mother boards and drives. When I look at the hard drive after the Astaro install, a few files and directories are on the drive, but the kernel and LILO don't appear to be. I get no error messages during the install. If I hadn't installed a version on one motherboard sucessfully, I'd give up totally. Unfortunately, I need two to set up a VPN.
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0 jim stephens over 23 years ago in reply to Harry Goldschmitt

Update:
install.log from an attempted install from
/dev/hda7/tmp/.install.log

This one gets as far as LIL-

I saw something about lower speed cdrom
drives being a problem and switched to 24x
cd rom drives.

thanks

##### BEGIN ###################################################################
Start time ....: Fri Jun 8 23:57:39 /etc/localtime 2001
TESTINGFLAG ...: 0
PATHTOKEN .....: /usr
VER ...........: $Id: core.sh,v 1.71 2001/04/27 14:16:46 hennig Exp $
1 disks found (hda )

License Agreement/Package Selection:
------------------------------------
OSS_ACCEPTED ......: 1
ASTARO_ACCEPTED ...: 1
VSACN_ACCEPTED ....: 1

Hardware Detection:
-------------------
nrcpu ................: 1
nrcpuok ..............: 1
DISKS_kb in kb........: 2062368
DISKS in mb...........: 2014
CYLINkBStr (UNITS?)...: Units = cylinders of 2064384 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, co
unting from 0
CYLINDS (Numbers of)..: 1023
CYLINkB in kb.........: 2016
REMAINDDISK ..........: 587
PARTSTAR[1] - PARTEND[1] (PARTSIZE[1]) ...: 0 - 253 (500)
PARTSTAR[2] - PARTEND[2] (PARTSIZE[2]) ...: 253 - 64 (127)
PARTSTAR[3] - PARTEND[3] (PARTSIZE[3]) ...: 317 - 80 (158)
PARTSTAR[4] - PARTEND[4] (PARTSIZE[4]) ...: 397 - 626 (EXTENDED)
PARTSTAR[5] - PARTEND[5] (PARTSIZE[5]) ...: 397 - 57 (114)
PARTSTAR[6] - PARTEND[6] (PARTSIZE[6]) ...: 454 - 27 (55)
PARTSTAR[7] - PARTEND[7] (PARTSIZE[7]) ...: 481 - 253 (500)
PARTSTAR[8] - PARTEND[8] (PARTSIZE[8]) ...: 734 - 141 (278)
PARTSTAR[9] - PARTEND[9] (PARTSIZE[9]) ...: 875 - 141 (278)
INT_VENDOR[0] ...: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC]
INT_DEVICE[0] ...: MX987x5
INT[0] ..........: tulip
INT_VENDOR[1] ...: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC]
INT_DEVICE[1] ...: MX987x5
INT[1] ..........: tulip
INT_VENDOR[2] ...:
INT_DEVICE[2] ...:
INT[2] ..........:

Processor:
- Model .......: Celeron (Mendocino)

Harddisk:
- Model .......: WDC AC32100H
- Cylinders ...: 1023 x 2016 KB
- Size ........: 2014 MB

Network cards:
- Model .......: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] - MX987x5
- Model .......: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] - MX987x5

IP Configuration:
-----------------
IP ........: 192.168.14.101
NETMASK ...: 255.255.255.0
GIP .......: 192.168.14.1
Fri Jun  8 23:58:22 /etc/localtime 2001
Fri Jun  8 23:58:22 /etc/localtime 2001

Date and Time Configuration:
----------------------------

Installation Process:
---------------------
Partitioning Harddisk ...................
0,253,83,*
253,64,82
317,80
397,626,5
397,57
454,27
481,253,83
734,141
875
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
OK
Disk /dev/hda: 1023 cylinders, 64 heads, 63 sectors/track
Old situation:
Units = cylinders of 2064384 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls   #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *      0+    252     253-   510047+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2        253     316      64    129024   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda3        317     396      80    161280   83  Linux
/dev/hda4        397    1022     626   1262016    5  Extended
/dev/hda5        397+    453      57-   114911+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6        454+    480      27-    54431+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7        481+    733     253-   510047+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8        734+    874     141-   284255+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9        875+   1022     148-   298367+  83  Linux
New situation:
Units = cylinders of 2064384 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls   #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *      0+    252     253-   510047+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2        253     316      64    129024   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda3        317     396      80    161280   83  Linux
/dev/hda4        397    1022     626   1262016    5  Extended
/dev/hda5        397+    453      57-   114911+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6        454+    480      27-    54431+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7        481+    733     253-   510047+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8        734+    874     141-   284255+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9        875+   1022     148-   298367+  83  Linux
Successfully wrote the new partition table

Re-reading the partition table ...

If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1)
to zero the first 512 bytes:  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1
(See fdisk(8).)
Formatting SWAP .........................
swapoff: /dev/hda2: Invalid argument
Setting up swapspace version 0, size = 132116480 bytes
Formatting ROOT-Filesystem ..............
Formatting /dev/hda7 for /
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hda7
is mounted.
warning: can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory
Formatting Emergency Partition ..........
Formatting /dev/hda1 for emergency
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Formatting Logfile Partition ............
Formatting /dev/hda3 for var/log
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Formatting SMTP-Proxy Partition .........
Formatting /dev/hda5 for var/chroot-smtp
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Formatting Up2Date Partition ............
Formatting /dev/hda6 for var/recovery
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Formatting HTTP-Proxy Partition .........
Formatting /dev/hda8 for var/chroot-squid
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Formatting DB-Reporting Partition .......
Formatting /dev/hda9 for var/chroot-report
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
OSS tarball .............................
FILE_COUNT ...:  6430
Astaro Security Linux tarball .....
FILE_COUNT ...:  253
Set squid cache size to 222........
-rw-r--r--   1 0        0           77494 Jun  9 00:00 /tmp/squid.tmp
Set e-mail for admin .....................
ADMINADDR ...: jwstephens@home.com
##### END #####################################################################
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0 bonezed over 23 years ago in reply to jim stephens

Having the same problem....
system is Intel 815 chipset, 20GB hardrive, 800Mhz cpu, 128MB ram [:S]
Only ever had Linux on the hard drive, and after install it just says No OS
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0 Harry Goldschmitt over 23 years ago in reply to bonezed

Is there any way you folks that have successfully installed Astaro 1.811 on a bare system can give those of us that are having problems a summary of your configuration? The processor, mother board, bios level, NIC card(s), hard drive and cd-rom drive would be a nice start. I'm willing to buy what I need to get Astaro up.

Maybe others that are having problems can think of other information that would be nice, too.
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