On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:24:36PM -0900, Siraaj Khandkar wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've been a very happy Debian user for sometime now, but yesterday ran into > my second major install issue (the first being the X configuration back in > 1999). > > I wanted to install a minimum Debian system on an old Dell PowerEdge 350 > server, but the NETINST CD is just ignored by the system (yes, the boot > order is correct :-) ), so I tried floppies, but those too are ignored (I > can hear it click as the system tries to read it on boot, but it then > proceeds to boot off the HD). The exact same Debian CD that failed to boot > on PE350, worked just fine on PE1850's, as well as a bunch of other, older > Compaq ProLiant servers (ML350's and 370's), as well as my HP laptop. I > tried booting off Ubuntu 6.06 CD and it worked just fine, I tried booting > RHEL 4 CDs, and it too worked just fine on that PE350. > so you get no bootloader at all? that's amazing. Doug gave you tons of good advice. Another thing you might try is drag the harddrive out that box and use another box to install to that harddrive and then stick the drive back into the original box and see what happens. YOu'll have to use some care to make sure you 1) get a full system and 2) it's the right architecture and 3) you've got a bootloader installed. Also, I would suggest swapping cd drives too. maybe there is a minor problem with the cd drive that only hits ont his disk (I know, that ignores the fact that the floppies dont' work either). A
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