Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-19 Thread michael
Hi gentuxx, As you may have seen in my reply to another helpful person, same disk worked on a different setting (primary slave instead of primary master). perhaps the disk is going bad, although it's only a couple years old. Thanks for your suggestion, Michael On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-19 Thread michael
Thanks John. None of your suggestions turned up the problem directly, but they did get me thinking and I tried the same disk on different connectors and at different settings. I found that I can boot from the primary slave device and the secondary master device. I didn't try the secondary slave de

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-19 Thread michael
Thanks for the suggestion, Walter. Yes, I did have the jumper set to "master", as appropriate. But see my next post. Michael On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 12:06:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Thanks for the idea. As I've said, I've been using this comp

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-17 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 17 September 2005 21:47, Walter Dnes wrote: > Can you check the jumpers on the drive? In the old days, there were > just "master" and "slave". Now there's a 3rd option "cable select", > which may be abbreviated as "CS". It works "automagically" with Windows > but it does *NOT* work

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 12:06:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Thanks for the idea. As I've said, I've been using this computer pretty > solidly with no indication, but that's not to say it can't happen. > > Your suggestion made me look at the BIOS boot stage and I notice that my > hard driv

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-17 Thread michael
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, gentuxx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been using my computer for awhile and decided to upgrade to gentoo 2005.1. Since there is nothing important on this system I decide to install from scratch. I follow the q

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-17 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using my computer for awhile and decided to upgrade to gentoo > 2005.1. Since there is nothing important on this system I decide to > install from scratch. I follow the quickinstall howto and reference t

[gentoo-user] new gentoo installed but can't boot: "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter"

2005-09-17 Thread michael
Hello, I've been using my computer for awhile and decided to upgrade to gentoo 2005.1. Since there is nothing important on this system I decide to install from scratch. I follow the quickinstall howto and reference the installation manual for 2005.1 and my own notes, as I've installed perhaps 8 o