Flashed with Loader 5.11, but doesn't detect hdd installatio

teitoku · Post by **teitoku** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:20 am

I finally got through that detailed tutorial of how to install gentoox 100% natively, yet the loader bios doesn't give the option to boot from the hard drive. I've done every step; copied over vmlinuz, created linuxboot.cfg, wiped out and re-did fstab...but it only shows CD/DVD boot and Advanced.

cheesyboofs · Post by **cheesyboofs** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:32 pm

Sounds to me like you didn't make the partition active!

Lastly we mustn’t forget to make the partition bootable to do this type a to toggle the bootable flag on a partition and select 2. If you press p again, you will notice that an * is placed in the "Boot" column.

Boot off the Restoox CD and check it.
Also can you please keep and native install questions in the native thred, so people having the same problem dont have to go hunting round.

teitoku · Post by **teitoku** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:31 pm

Ahhh...you know what? I sure didn't. I'll look at that later today.

edit: Is there a way to make it active that won't cause data loss? I'm scared to run fdisk if it's going to screw it up.

teitoku · Post by **teitoku** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 9:48 am

Eh, fdisked it anyways. It works so much better now; no troubles at all. I'm going to chalk this up to a bad initial formatting.