On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Dominic Torruellas wrote: > OK I've done what all you nice peaple have told me to do, I've turned of > my cache cand shadow ram stuff and tried to boot off teh rescue disk, > now it says non-system disk error, anyone know how I can fix this?
This sounds very much like the bios can't find a bootable image on the disk. Probably the image didn't get written without errors, which seems to happen a lot. It is much more likely that the problem is with the quality of the disks than the quality of your hardware or the settings in your bios. If you already have a working linux, you can try 'mkdosfs -c' on a formatted disk. Generally, linux is much pickier about the quality of disks than dos and 'mkdosfs -c' often spots potentially bad disks. Every disk that passed this test has always booted without problems here, on any computer. If you don't have a linux yet and use rawrite2.exe from dos, writing the resc1440.bin image three times to the disk might work (though more knowledgable people might classify such an attempt as "voodoo", it once worked for fine me.) Some questions to ask yourself before giving up on your hardware: - How many disks have you tried to write? - Did they all fail consistantly in the same manner? - Have you tried to use disks of a known-good quality? And last but not least: - Have you tried the disks that fail on your computer on other computers (just booting from the rescue disk should do no harm to a computer)? Good luck, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
