Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

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?

Hugo


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