Re: Booting from Debian CD
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
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