Re: Linux Set Up Disk Won't Boot
From: Len Johnson (lenjohnnospam_at_hiwaay.net)
Date: 03/15/04
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:20:44 -0000
"Lawrence Clemens" <LCLEMENS@mn.rr.com> wrote in
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> 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
>
I ran into the same thing and was never able to determine the problem. If
anyone knows, I would sure like to hear from them. I eventually made a boot
floppy from an image file on the cd and was able to install from that. View
the readme files which should be on the cd to find out how to do this.
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