Re: Laptop won't boot after installation - disk error

2011-04-25 Thread Anthony Campbell 
On 24 Apr 2011, Allan Wind wrote:
> On 2011-04-24 22:18:02, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I just did a fresh installation of Debian. Everything seemed to go off
> > correctly but when I came to reboot I got:
> > 
> > Non-system disk or disk error: replace and strike any key when ready.
> > 
> > I reinstalled twice and also reinstalled grub twice. No errors reported.
> > I suspect a hard disk failure or cmos problem. Any other ideas? Is it
> > possible to boot via a cdrom? All the files are there on the hard disk
> > when I look at it via rescue.
> 
> I recently upgraded my laptop and the new laptop required the 
> boot flag set.  You can do that via fdisk (or friends) when 
> booting into rescue or go through the install and set it there 
> but accept the option of keeping the data.  Then just restart 
> after the new partition table is written out.
> 
> 
> /Allan
> -- 
> Allan Wind
> Life Integrity, LLC
> 
> 

Yes!! Thank you indeed for that tip. With the bootable flag set it came
up at once. I don't know why, I had thought it wasn't needed, but
evidently it is. 

Anthony


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Re: Laptop won't boot after installation - disk error

2011-04-24 Thread Allan Wind 
On 2011-04-24 22:18:02, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I just did a fresh installation of Debian. Everything seemed to go off
> correctly but when I came to reboot I got:
> 
> Non-system disk or disk error: replace and strike any key when ready.
> 
> I reinstalled twice and also reinstalled grub twice. No errors reported.
> I suspect a hard disk failure or cmos problem. Any other ideas? Is it
> possible to boot via a cdrom? All the files are there on the hard disk
> when I look at it via rescue.

I recently upgraded my laptop and the new laptop required the 
boot flag set.  You can do that via fdisk (or friends) when 
booting into rescue or go through the install and set it there 
but accept the option of keeping the data.  Then just restart 
after the new partition table is written out.


/Allan
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Life Integrity, LLC



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Laptop won't boot after installation - disk error

2011-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell 
I just did a fresh installation of Debian. Everything seemed to go off
correctly but when I came to reboot I got:

Non-system disk or disk error: replace and strike any key when ready.

I reinstalled twice and also reinstalled grub twice. No errors reported.
I suspect a hard disk failure or cmos problem. Any other ideas? Is it
possible to boot via a cdrom? All the files are there on the hard disk
when I look at it via rescue.

Anthony



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