On 24 Apr 2011, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2011-04-24 22:18:02, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I just did a fresh installation of Debian. Everything seemed to go off > > correctly but when I came to reboot I got: > > > > Non-system disk or disk error: replace and strike any key when ready. > > > > I reinstalled twice and also reinstalled grub twice. No errors reported. > > I suspect a hard disk failure or cmos problem. Any other ideas? Is it > > possible to boot via a cdrom? All the files are there on the hard disk > > when I look at it via rescue. > > I recently upgraded my laptop and the new laptop required the > boot flag set. You can do that via fdisk (or friends) when > booting into rescue or go through the install and set it there > but accept the option of keeping the data. Then just restart > after the new partition table is written out. > > > /Allan > -- > Allan Wind > Life Integrity, LLC > <http://lifeintegrity.com> >
Yes!! Thank you indeed for that tip. With the bootable flag set it came up at once. I don't know why, I had thought it wasn't needed, but evidently it is. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110425080735.gg2...@acampbell.org.uk
