World: r3wp

Ah, it is the grub shell that boots the CD.

You have to boot the CD again and enter the GrUB shell. Please read 
the install.txt

Ok, booting cd now.

oh that's right, just cancelled the install by not pressing 'i' at 
the beginning.

now to read install.txt

If you are running Linux, you can also use that to read the install.txt 
from the CD. Windows unfortunately can't read the RockRidge format

No linux. Where's the install.txt ?

/Install and then maybe deeper in a docs directory or something

ok I'll have a look. Is there a tree command of some sort that can 
do the looking for me ?

cd /Install

No tree command in the standard distribution

ls

to list the directory contents

d

or

dir

may also work

Or you can read it from the site:

http://syllable.sourceforge.net/docs/latest/install.txt

cool thanks

Ahh!  I think I used the power button to reboot.

Don't!

Not on any operating system

Except maybe Coyotos...

It's alright, it's not my main machine.

But I won't do it again. I understand the caching.

It wouldn't have affected any other Oses on it, anyway, but it may 
well have corrupted the Syllable installation

It has a journaling file system, but it's not a good start

(I was talking about what I tried last night.) I'm just reinstalling 
now, anyway.

OK

Ok, finished install, used 'r' to reboot, escaped into grub shell, 
did root (hd0,0) and setup (hd0), that seemed to be successful.

Then I typed 'reboot', set my bios to boot from C only, and now it's 
just sitting with
	GRUB _
and a blinking command prompt, but no interactivity possible.

Were there any error messages during setup (hd0)?

There were three with "(this is not fatal)" at the end.

What were they?

Doh.

What program did you use to create the partition?

Maybe I'll try that step again from the CD, hang on. Syllable installer 
created the partition, I am pretty sure it did anyway (it was very 
fast...)

It was a win98 FAT partition previously.

Did you use Syllable to create the partition?

Yes, from the Syllable Basic CD installer.

With our graphical DiskManager?

Yes.

Then it's probably a known problem of DiskManager not leaving enough 
space before the partition for the boot manager on some systems

any workarounds ?

It wasn't necessary to repartition because you could have used the 
existing partition

To get a correct partition, make the partition again with Windows 
or some other partitioning tool

Then in the Syllable installation, just point it to that partition. 
It will just reformat it

Ok, first I am going to try go back and see what those error messages 
were.

DiskManager is for when you only have free space and need to make 
a new partition