Questions before installing Salix

[gapan]

"simple" should be OK.

[Themis]

Thanks, gapan. I chose “simple”.
Well, I reinstalled Salix, and the problem remains the same. Everything was OK, it ejected the install DVD, then asked me to reboot, and here I am again on the Boot Menu. It just doesn’t recognize the distro and won’t boot on it.

Is there a (secure) way to go back to MBR? Because when I launched the installation, it recognized it was GPT so I wonder if that could make any problem. I’m quite lost, now…

[gapan]

Do you get the exact same error as before?

[Themis]

Nope. I mean, I’ve seen no error. To me, the installation process seems to have worked perfectly. When the computer boots, it just ends up here: https://framapic.org/Ei7XnEPHW8ux/rihl0BFPj1cd.jpg

[gapan]

What happens if you move the HDD0 option to the top?

[Themis]

It keeps printing this boot menu…

Edit:
When the computer is booting, right before this screen, it prints something like “Exiting Intel Boot Agent”, or something like that. Does that have something to do with the problem?

[gapan]

You now have a non-EFI installation right? And LILO was installed at the end of installation (not elilo)? And you only have a / partition, no /boot or /boot/efi.

Assuming your / is in sda1, can you run this from the installation DVD and post what happens when running the lilo command at the end?

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mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
chroot /mnt
lilo -v

[Themis]

Yes, I have a non-EFI installation (I guess…). LILO (not elilo, for what I’ve seen) has been installed at the end of installation, that’s right, and I have these partitions:

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Number   Start (sector)    End (sector)     Size       Code    Name
  1              2048       33556479      16.0 GiB     8200    Linux swap
  2          33556480      121636863      42.0 GiB     8300    Linux filesystem
  3         121636864      468862094      165.6 GiB    8302    Linux /home

Now, here we go (I skip the copyright part, etc.):

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root@salix64:/# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
chroot /mnt
lilo -v
LILO version 24.2 (released 22-November-2015)
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Reading boot sector from /dev/sda
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not exist, disk scan bypassed
Warning: Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system.
Using BITMAP secondary loader
Calling map_insert_data
Mapping bitmap file /boot/salix.bmp
Warning: Video adapter does not support VESA BIOS extensions needed for display of 256 colors.  Boot loader will fall back to TEXT only operation.
Calling map_insert_file

Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-huge-4.4.19
Added Salix  *

Writing boot sector
/boot/boot.0800 exists – no boot sector backup copy made.
4 warnings were issued.
root@salix64:/#

[mimosa]

That looks good! Does it boot now?

[gapan]

It seems that lilo has been installed correctly. Unless there is something in the BIOS (well, EFI) settings that prevents booting from the hard drive, I have no ideas.