Re: Booting from Debian CD
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
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