Re: Linux Set Up Disk Won't Boot
From: Frank Winans (fwinans_at_airmail.net)
Date: 12/22/03
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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:56:11 -0600
"Lawrence Clemens" wrote
> I am working on a 266MHZ Pent II with 128MB RAM and a 4 GB HD. I freshly
> Partitioned and formatted the HD with a Win 98 boot disk. I down loaded
> Debian to take a look at it. I burned ISOs from the download. I changed
> the BIOS to boot from CDROM and successfully booted the 1st Debian disk and
> went through the partitioning and started the installation. Then I got an
> error message that something failed. I didn't pay too much attention to the
> actual message, figuring I would start again from scratch.
>
> When I went to reboot, it puzzled over the CDROM for a bit (light on) and
> then gave me a C:>. After a couple of repeats, I wiped the HD with
> KillDisk, and with the W98 boot disk once again partitioned and formatted.
> Still it will not recognize the Debian starter disk or a RedHat starter
> disk. It does recognize a Win installation CD if I load the boot disk and
> put in the Win disk and type A:/Setup (so the CDROM is OK and I could have
> installed Windows). I put the Debian disk in another W98 computer and it
> loaded and gave the Debian start up screen, so the Debian disk is still OK.
>
> What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance
You're doing everything I'd do, except about now I'd recheck cmos bios
setup screen settings, {maybe borrow an 8 year-old to point out my errors,}
tear down the machine and doublecheck jumpering and cabling; windows
may be more tolerent of marginal hardware than linux -- they can afford to
make it slow and paranoid and it's a dead cert a lot of win users will have
old fluky gear. And you may have omitted mentioning it if you did part of that
testing with components out of the case; if so, put 'em back where they worked,
dangling versus bolted-in.
Your symptoms are _soooo_ strange you might consider trading out cd/hd berg
jumpers and any cables and even the cdrom drive if you can borrow substitutes
long enough to test with them. But first get a good strong flashlight and see if any
cables look slightly loose, like half unplugged. Even that's improbable, except for
the floppy ribbon cable, and that doesn't seem indicated.
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