Michelle Storm wrote:
Is there a way to boot an installed system from one of the Debian installation CDs?If you're asking what I believe you're asking. I had the same problem. I damaged my system somehow so it wouldn't boot on it's own, and had to figure a way to start the system from a cd. try booting from the CD then at the prompt type: rescue root=/dev/<your / drive>
or if it is really foobared, you can go to the first screen of the installation sequence and then hit Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get a root shell if you need to run diagnostics on the partitions, etc.