Title: Message
Hi
Debian
I have got a
problem with opening my computer just reading as follow: Disk boot failure,
insert a diskette and press enter. What type of diskette is
that?
Please
help!
Toivo[Simmel]
This
is because the system can'T find the
Title: Message
Hi
Debian
I have got a problem
with opening my computer just reading as follow: Disk boot failure, insert a
diskette and press enter. What type of diskette is that?
Please
help!
Toivo
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 18:11, Debian User wrote:
> bios still sees both drives ... i think the hardware is still working.
>
> i re-lilo-ed without success. I still have to boot from the floopy.
>
You finally mention the reason for your OP (original post): your
computer had a power failure. I thi
ink lilo is not ever run. the bios displays the
system
>> configuration then the error message:
>>
>> DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
>>
>> my boot sequence is A,C.
>IIRC the machine is not seeing the drives properly. Did this happen
>af
e i last reboot this particular machine.
At 26 July 2003, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:13, Debian User wrote:
>> after bios, i think lilo is not ever run. the bios displays the
system
>> configuration then the error message:
>>
&g
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:13, Debian User wrote:
> after bios, i think lilo is not ever run. the bios displays the system
> configuration then the error message:
>
> DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
>
> my boot sequence is A,C.
IIRC the machine is not
i have with no success.
fdisk /dev/hdc1 does not see the device. i think there may be two
problems ... the boot on /dev/hda and not seeing the second drive
/dev/hdc
>> when i try to mount to the /dev/hdc drive,
>have you tried to mount them by hand?
>
>The list needs info! Specific error me
after bios, i think lilo is not ever run. the bios displays the system
configuration then the error message:
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
my boot sequence is A,C.
the boot floopy i am using is 2.2.20. the machine was booting 2.4.
18 ... for months before this problem
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 17:51, Debian User wrote:
> i am unable to boot from /dev/hda.
What error? Lilo error?
> i have a boot disk and that worked.
I saw from below -- which kernel does it boot? Lilo, grub? have you
tried re-lilo-ing?
> i am trying to figure out why i cannot boot from the hard dri
i am unable to boot from /dev/hda. i have a boot disk and that worked.
i am trying to figure out why i cannot boot from the hard drive.
i have compaired this to a machine that boots but i cannot figure
out what is wrong. help!!
my root filesystem looks like:
server:/# ls
backuphda1 bin de
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Pigeon wrote:
> On most machines, if the cable is upside-down, the floppy LED is
> always on and (usually) the motor running.
>
> Pigeon
And will usually ruin any floppy you put in it, causing you to need to
reformat it :)
Mike
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Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 09:35:27 +0100, Martin Juhlin
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >* Normally (at least on my floppy) don't know if inserted the cable
> >upside-down in the connection on the motherboard or in the floppy drive. Just
> >try to flip one-by-one
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 09:35:27 +0100, Martin Juhlin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>* Normally (at least on my floppy) don't know if inserted the cable
>upside-down in the connection on the motherboard or in the floppy drive. Just
>try to flip one-by-one and see if any of the four combination work.
>
lördagen den 9 november 2002 22.25 skrev Helgi Örn:
> On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 21:47, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > Er, so what _does_ happen with your boot floppy?
>
> That I explained in my first mail...:-)
>
> > I'm all out of
> > clairvoyance credits for the month and my remote viewing neighbor is
>
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 21:52, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
> Helgi =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D6rn?= Helgason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Thank's for your reply, but the boot sequence is already A, C so this is
> > not the problem.
>
> It may be a bad floppy or a bad floppy-disk drive.
>
I checked with ano
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 21:47, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> Er, so what _does_ happen with your boot floppy?
That I explained in my first mail...:-)
> I'm all out of
> clairvoyance credits for the month and my remote viewing neighbor is
> out of town.
>
> I assume you've tried booting with the rescue
Helgi =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D6rn?= Helgason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thank's for your reply, but the boot sequence is already A, C so this is
> not the problem.
It may be a bad floppy or a bad floppy-disk drive.
Elizabeth
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On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:21:26PM +0100, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 20:16, Pigeon wrote:
> > You haven't got a bootable partition on the hard drive, and it sounds
> > like your BIOS is set to boot from the hard drive and not the floppy.
> >
> > Go into BIOS Setup (press DEL
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 20:16, Pigeon wrote:
> You haven't got a bootable partition on the hard drive, and it sounds
> like your BIOS is set to boot from the hard drive and not the floppy.
>
> Go into BIOS Setup (press DEL when booting) and make sure that the
> boot sequence (can't remember the exac
On 09 Nov 2002 14:11:05 +0100, Helgi Örn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello Debians!
>
>I'm stuck in deep trouble. I want to put Debian on an old box I got. The
>box got 2 harddisks, pri. master 1707MB and pri. slave 1083MB. When I
>try to boot it it gives me: DISK BOOT F
Hello Debians!
I'm stuck in deep trouble. I want to put Debian on an old box I got. The
box got 2 harddisks, pri. master 1707MB and pri. slave 1083MB. When I
try to boot it it gives me: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND
PRESS ENTER
No matter what kind of a boot floppy I give it or
Jeff Hill wrote:
>
> When booting from hard disk, the system goes through memory test and
> then starts an endless stream of zeros and ones. Booting from floppy
> works fine. Any suggestions?
It seems to me that LILO is broken on the HD. Try to reinstall LILO on
the HD.
///Johan
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When booting from hard disk, the system goes through memory test and
then starts an endless stream of zeros and ones. Booting from floppy
works fine. Any suggestions?
This is a new installation of release 2.1 (Mar. 9). I have it on the
first hard disk on the second IDE channel. As I'm building thi
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