On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:01:19AM -0500, Terrence Brannon wrote: > On 2/1/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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