Re: Disk boot failure

2006-04-03 tråd Bradesku, Kelly
 

Re: Disk boot failure

2002-11-12 tråd Mike Dresser
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Pigeon wrote: > On most machines, if the cable is upside-down, the floppy LED is > always on and (usually) the motor running. > > Pigeon And will usually ruin any floppy you put in it, causing you to need to reformat it :) Mike

Re: Disk boot failure

2002-11-11 tråd Emil Styrke
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 09:35:27 +0100, Martin Juhlin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >* Normally (at least on my floppy) don't know if inserted the cable > >upside-down in the connection on the motherboard or in the floppy drive. > >Just > >try to flip one-by

Re: Disk boot failure

2002-11-10 tråd Pigeon
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 09:35:27 +0100, Martin Juhlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Normally (at least on my floppy) don't know if inserted the cable >upside-down in the connection on the motherboard or in the floppy drive. Just >try to flip one-by-one and see if any of the four combination work. >

Re: Disk boot failure

2002-11-10 tråd Martin Juhlin
lördagen den 9 november 2002 22.25 skrev Helgi Örn: > On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 21:47, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Er, so what _does_ happen with your boot floppy? > > That I explained in my first mail...:-) > > > I'm all out of > > clairvoyance credits for the month and my remote viewing neighbor is >

Re: Disk boot failure

2002-11-09 tråd Helgi Örn
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 21:47, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Er, so what _does_ happen with your boot floppy? That I explained in my first mail...:-) > I'm all out of > clairvoyance credits for the month and my remote viewing neighbor is > out of town. > > I assume you've tried booting with the rescue

Re: Disk boot failure

2002-11-09 tråd Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:21:26PM +0100, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 20:16, Pigeon wrote: > > You haven't got a bootable partition on the hard drive, and it sounds > > like your BIOS is set to boot from the hard drive and not the floppy. > > > > Go into BIOS Setup (press DEL

Re: Disk boot failure

2002-11-09 tråd Helgi Örn Helgason
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 20:16, Pigeon wrote: > You haven't got a bootable partition on the hard drive, and it sounds > like your BIOS is set to boot from the hard drive and not the floppy. > > Go into BIOS Setup (press DEL when booting) and make sure that the > boot sequence (can't remember the exac

Re: Disk boot failure

2002-11-09 tråd Pigeon
On 09 Nov 2002 14:11:05 +0100, Helgi Örn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello Debians! > >I'm stuck in deep trouble. I want to put Debian on an old box I got. The >box got 2 harddisks, pri. master 1707MB and pri. slave 1083MB. When I >try to boot it it gives me: DISK BOOT F

Disk boot failure

2002-11-09 tråd Helgi Örn
Hello Debians! I'm stuck in deep trouble. I want to put Debian on an old box I got. The box got 2 harddisks, pri. master 1707MB and pri. slave 1083MB. When I try to boot it it gives me: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER No matter what kind of a boot floppy I give it or