Mark Copper said: > 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.
don't feel dumb. most likely it is a bug. I cannot speak for debian 3.0 but debian 2.2's CDs for sure had something "odd" about them which prevented them from booting on some systems. I only personally experienced this on 2 laptops(1 IBM iSeries and 1 Toshiba, forgot the exact model#s). Other distros such as SuSE booted fine, as did my custom mode BBLCD(home brew do-it-yourself bootable linux cd). The only workaround I found was to use a floppy to boot(or use different hardware). Luckily the toshiba had a built in floppy drive so I was able to install, the IBM did not, so I delagated it to someone else to use in the company. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
