Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

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.

On 2/1/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.


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