[conspire] Fedora Boot Disk

[Greg Dougherty]

On 6/11/04, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> writes:

> Quoting Greg Dougherty (gregd at molecularsoftware.com):
> 
> I have a full set of CD images for Fedora Core 2 for i386.  Tell me
> which one you need (I'm rusty on Fedora matters), and I'll burn it for
> you.

Thanks.  I'll go to the Fedora site and figure that out.  I have an Althlon, if
that's what you need to know.

> But that's not actually what you need.  Slow down.
> 
> You have something wrong with your ability to boot, but you don't yet
> know what's wrong.  You know only that the hard disk still IDs itself to
> the BIOS.  
> 
> What the message "Non-System disk or disk error" means depends on what
> issued it.  Can you tell?  That's vital information.  It could be a BIOS
> message indicating that the first drive in the BIOS-listed boot order 
> that's in a "ready" state was the subject of a boot attempt, but lacked
> a valid boot sector, so that booting halted at that point.  
> 
> Make sure you don't have a floppy, CD, or other removable disk in any
> of your drives.  You'd feel a little sheepish if the sole cause of this
> "hard drive problem" is that you left a data floppy in the "A:" drive,
> and "A:" is first in the BIOS boot order, right?

Yes, as a matter of fact, I DO feel rather sheepish that it was the floppy disk
sitting in my floppy drive that was screwing me up (I'd already pulled the CD).
:-(

Thanks.

-- 
Greg Dougherty
Code Janitor
Molecular Software, Inc.
gregd at molecularsoftware.com
408-623-2854