On 26 Oct 2002, 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
I think it would be worth trying the boot floppy approach. Yesterday I transferred a CD drive from one machine to another, but although it was working previously I couldn't persuade the BIOS to recognize the drive in its new home. Then I remembered that Linux doesn't use the BIOS so I tried boot floppies and, sure enough, the drive was recognized without trouble. AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
