Re: Computer will not boot from hard disk

From: Timothy Murphy (tim_at_birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 20:36:31 +0100

Hank Oredson wrote:

>> My computer - Asus P2B-LS - will not boot from the hard disk,
>> although it boots from floppy and CD without problem.
>> The boot order is C-A-CDROM.
>> It comes up with
>> ============================
>> DISK BOOT FAILURE.
>> INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.
>> ============================
>>
>> The disk is SCSI, if that is relevant.

> All BIOS I've encountered will boot only from IDE
> when they say "C". Do you have SCSI as an option?
> i.e. SCSI-CD-A or SCSI-A-NET?

I should have said that this problem only arose recently -
the machine is quite old, maybe 5 years,
and booted perfectly until recently.

I guess there must be something wrong with the SCSI controller,
as was suggested.
I have another SCSI disk in the machine,
and will try swapping them round. 

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Timothy Murphy  
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