Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

["Terrence Brannon" <metaperl.etc@gmail.com>]

Just FYI - Debian never managed to boot into linux even after trying
the suggestion with the rescue disk. Ubuntu similarly failed. Gentoo
worked.

Not trying to start a flame war , but I thought this would be of interest.

On 2/1/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:55:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > >On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:01:53AM -0500, Terrence Brannon wrote:
> > >>After installing Debian/testing from CD, and then removing the CD and
> > >>rebooting, I get this message:
> > >>
> > >>"DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
> > >>
> > >>Now, in my BIOS, the order of boot preference is CDROM, Floppy Disk,
> > >>HDD-0
> > >>
> > >>and HDD-0 is where I think the MBR is and since during installation I
> > >>said to install GRUB there, it should've booted from there (since cdr
> > >>and floppy drives are empty).
> > >>
> > >>But for some reason, it is failing as described.
> > >>
> > >
> > >I ran into this as well.
> > >
> > >Reboot the installer in rescue mode, go through the setup and choose
> > >install grub.
> > >
> >
> > Meaning no bootloader got installed?
> >
> That was my experience yes.
>
> Doug.
>
>
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