Re: Booting Debian/testing fails
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:01:19AM -0500, Terrence Brannon wrote:
> 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.
>> 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.
I don't suppose you have a grub-disk (floppy based. Why doesn't someone
make a grub-stick?)? From that you can run grub manually.
Doug.
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