Re: [PLUG] Verifying DMI Pool Data

[ed nestor <ejn88@voicenet.com>]

Hi,

Is there a way to tell if the "mbr" is in fact installed and intact.

thanks -- Ed


LeRoy Cressy wrote:

> The verifying dmi pool date is the last portion of the bios portion of
> the boot process.  This is the portion of the process that checks the
> validity of the various drives and etc that the bios detected on your
> system.  You mentioned that your one drive is a 15 gig Western Digital
> drive.  The drive may be what is causing the system to halt and not even
> see the partition table portion of the mbr.  Also the rescue disk looks
> for the boot partition and if the system cannot understand the mbr or
> the partition scheme your rescue disk will fail.
>
> Sugestions:
>
> the Western Digital site has a bootable program that will setup your
> bios to recognize the large drives.
> http://www.westerndigital.com/service/
> Using this may help.
>
> Also, I think from what you wrote this is a new installation, so
> possibly you need to reinstall the entire system.  The first portion of
> the install is a small root partition and possibly a small boot
> partition, like 64 Meg each (more than the 40 Meg HD my 386 came with).
> these will be hda1 and hda2.  hda3 should be a swap partition and hda4
> should be an extended partition covering the rest of the drive.  hda5 to
> hdaX fills up the extended partition.  I think that you can have up to
> hda20, but I don't think that fdisk can handle something that large.
>
> It might help to use cfdisk to set up your linux partitions which is
> supposed to be better than fdisk.
>
> Also, on the install from the CD you need to create the MBR.  This is
> very important.  If the mbr on the drive is broken or nonexistant
> nothing will boot from that drive.  I've actually saw a system that
> could boot from a floppy, but there was no MBR on the system.  The drive
> happened to be a large WD ide drive
>
> Maybe you could boot from the install CD and run install-mbr or whatever
> utility that slackware uses to create the mbr.
>
> I hope that this helps a little
>
> "William G. Zappasodi" wrote:
> >
> > Heard everything from hardware problems to LILO problems,
> > I get "Verifying DMI Pool Data" and hangs when I boot from the hd, or the
> > rescue disc.
> > Slackware 7.1, 500mgh AMD w/ 128mb, 15gig WD. Only OS on the box. Loading
> > from the CD. Installing to MBR.
>
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