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| Thread ID: 26704 | 2002-11-03 07:12:00 | Boot problems from Knoppix CD | grantrow (2428) | Press F1 |
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| 95629 | 2002-11-03 07:12:00 | I'm new to Linux ( obviously ), and am having all kinds of trouble getting my ancient Pentium to let me boot from the CD. I changed the settings in the cmos to make the CD drive the boot drive, and went as far as going back in to disable the hard drive and A: completely so as nothing else should interfere with the CD drive booting up. Unfortunately it kind of gets there and then gives me a message something like ... insert media into drive ............ and just sits there like there is no CD in the drive. I've tried opening and closing the drive, and moving the CD around in the drive tray to make sure that it is sitting properly in the drive. Nothing I do seems to make any difference. Anybody have any ideas what I can try next. I'm real keen to try this Linux stuff, as if it's any good, I would dearly love to wave good by to Bill and his merry band at MS, at least on my home PC !! | grantrow (2428) | ||
| 95630 | 2002-11-03 07:25:00 | Does your CD recognise other CD-ROms ?/ | boga (2298) | ||
| 95631 | 2002-11-03 09:58:00 | Had exactly the same problem myself. What you need is a BOOT DISC. See instructions in the files. I found them a bit difficult to get to work. So what I did was locate, go to, and run Rawrite2 on the CD (in DOS) it asks you what file you want uncompressed (or something like that). Put in, boot_en.img -d It then asks what drive to place the file on. Put A, you need a blank formatted disk in the drive. After this you have a boot disc. Configure the BIOS to boot from A, place the CD in the CD drive and restart (Cntrl\Alt\Del if you are in DOS). I found pressing ENTER after the first burst if floppy activity sped up the process quiete a bit. If you are unfamiliar with DOS post again. |
Rod ger (316) | ||
| 95632 | 2002-11-04 03:17:00 | For boot floppies to work, they must be perfect RAWRITE does not take notice of mapped out bad sectors in the FAT; it writes a disk image. (And it is using DOS copy routines which do not check that thing have been written correctly) . I suppose they should do a read and compare afterwards, but people are impatient, and things "usually" work. If you have problems with a boot floppy not booting, make another one. You will sometimes get an "Error 9" : that definitely means "bad floppy". |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 95633 | 2002-11-05 08:51:00 | Yes it does normally. Thanks. | grantrow (2428) | ||
| 95634 | 2002-11-05 08:53:00 | Thanks I'll give that a try. | grantrow (2428) | ||
| 95635 | 2002-11-05 08:54:00 | Thanks for the help. I'll try the boot disk route. | grantrow (2428) | ||
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