Jim, MachineA - machine the CD will boot on MachineB - machine you are trying to load the software on
This may seem redundant but since the CD will boot MachineA and you can see the hard drive on MachineB you are trying to load the software on you should be able to boot MachineB from the CD and run Ubuntu/EMC. The install is usually simple from there. Will MachineB boot (any operating system) from the CD? Stuart On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Jim Fleig - CNC Services <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > All of the CD's that have been burned with my Windows desktop using > InfraRecorder will boot the desktop tower and run fine. Per one suggestion I > burned CD's at different speeds but this did not make a difference. > > With help from Przemek, using hal91 the hard drive was partitioned. Now > > fdisk -l Enter displays: > > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1027. > This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with: > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) > 2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) > > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 1 1 1027 8249346 83 Linux > native > hdc : tray open or drive not ready > hdc : tray open or drive not ready > hdc : tray open > end request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 0 > [hal91 -=- /] _ > > and dmesg | grep hdc Enter displays: > > hdc: ATAPI CD ROM DRIVE 50X MAX, ATAPI CDROM drive > hdc : tray open or drive not ready > hdc : tray open or drive not ready > hdc : tray open > [hal91 -=- /] _ > > Are there other commands that would provide useful information? > > Thanks for your questions and advice. > > Hopefully this is closer to working. > > Have a good night, > > Jim > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stuart Stevenson" <[email protected]> > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:32 PM > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Linux installation problem Boot accomplished > withhal91 Linux bootable floppy > > >> Jim, >> Have you booted the CD in another computer? If not, you need to be >> able to boot the CD. When you are able to boot the CD then the >> installation process will identify the hard drive and partition it for >> you. It will do an automatically generated configuration or you can do >> a manual configuration. The automatically generated configuration will >> work for you. >> If the CD will boot in another computer you need to look at the >> motherboard, bios, and the CD reader in the computer you are having >> trouble with. >> If the CD will not boot in another computer you need to make >> another CD and be sure you write a bootable image. You will probably >> need to specifically instruct the CD writing software to make it write >> a bootable image. >> HTH >> Stuart >> >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Jim Fleig - CNC Services >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The tower has booted! >>> >>> Thank you for all of the replies. I read (but did not understand) all of >>> them. It seemed to make sense to me to focus on trying to boot with a >>> floppy because the DBAN floppy would boot every time. It took a long time >>> to find and then a couple of attempts to get hal91 to write to a floppy >>> correctly. If this would be helpful to anyone else, hal91 is available >>> here: http://jspiro.tripod.com/linux/hal91.htm. >>> >>> I'm almost (skip the almost, I am) afraid to do anything next. Now that >>> hal91 is up and running there is a fdisk command available. I have looked >>> this up on the internet and I do not understand all that I am reading. I >>> have partitioned hard drives for Windows based CNC control systems with >>> instructions from the manufacturer. This was successful because of the >>> specific instructions. I did not interpret generic commands and decide how >>> to partition the drive. Right now I am not even sure if fdisk is the next >>> thing to do. Is there a command to check the hard drive? Are there >>> commands for checking the other parts of the system? CD drive, motherboard, >>> RAM, etc.? If there are commands for making these checks and all of the >>> checks pass would fdisk be the next thing to do? >>> >>> Thanks again for all the replies. >>> >>> I look forward to the next instructions and hopefully the next step of >>> progress to be up and running again. >>> >>> Have a good day, >>> >>> Jim Fleig >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and >>> around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save >>> $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. >>> 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. 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