Hi, I have maybe the same problem, the cdrom used to boot, but not anymore (I have a 2-3 years old PC). But then I discovered that when I installed a CDRW drive as a master on my second IDE, the cdrom became slave and since then it can't boot from cdrom. I tried to switch the drives and it booted the cdroms. (This all after a total reset of bios, so all drives are recognized at the very boot). My advice is to have a look at the master-slave thing (this are little pins at the left of the IDE hole on the cdrom. If the cdrom is on the end of the ide cable, it should be master and then it can boot. regards Matej
On Saturday 26 October 2002 23:59, Mark Copper wrote: > I'm trying to reinstall Debian. It's a 3 yr old PC but I put in a new > hard disk drive and power supply. I've told the BIOS to boot from the CD, > but I get the message "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press > enter". I tried 3 cd drives, tried both my Debian 3.0 and old 2.2 cd's, > both of which I've used successfully before (even on this box), same > result. The BIOS recognizes each drive correctly, it appears; I've > double-checked the jumper settings on the drives. hmmm. > > What silly thing have I done? > > Should I create boot floppies, return old hard disk to master position? > > Feeling dumb but appreciative in advance. > > Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
