-----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 the > installation manual for 2005.1 and my own notes, as I've installed > perhaps 8 or so gentoo systems. > > I'm using the Universal 2005.1 live CDROM. > > Everything proceeds well, including installing grub, setting up > grub.conf and running grub-install, and when I'm finished I exit the > chroot environment, umount my root and boot partitions, and reboot. > > It fails, with the dreaded message " Disk Boot Failure, Insert System > Disk And Press Enter". > > I boot the live CD again, double check my grub.conf file, run > grub-install again, check with fdisk that my boot partition is > bootable, > and try again. Same result. > > I'm mystified. I've been using this computer for developing systems > over > the past few months and have rebooted it many, many times, with no > difficulty. > > I figure it's failing very early if I'm not even getting into grub. > > Any ideas? Any suggestions for what to test, inspect, try? > > Thanks, > Michael - From my experience, this is typical of a bad disk. I have a system that gives the exact same error. Usually, for me, a reboot solves it, and it loads the OS. But I happen to know that my disk is on it's last legs. ;-) If you have another disk lying around, or could get another one, I would try the install, using the same method you used, and see if you have the same problem. - -- gentux echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDK8f4LYGSSmmWCZMRAuY9AKDoJAUp7VBtD+W4mYA6FdVP3uHLvQCgmmXS X8hFXo6X3RLuFvsIeuFwysQ= =B2/n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
