Hm. The BIOS in most motherboards I have used (Dell, Intel, Nvida, Via)
will allow you to SPECIFY the order in which boot devices will be attempted.
In my daily non-EMC context, I usually set this to Floppy first, CD second,
HDD third. When setting up EMC this allows me to boot the LiveCD to do
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Linux installation problem CD's are bootable
Harddrive partitioned with hal91 fdisk -l and dmesg | grep hdc messages
Jim,
MachineA - machine the CD will boot
Maybe just as easy(?). Remove the hard drive from the machine that
won't (isn't) booting the CD and install it in the box
that can come up under 'Live'. Go thru the installation process and
then move the disk back to the other machine.
There is a possible issue here and that is getting X
Jim Fleig - CNC Services wrote:
Hi Stuart,
I don't mind the redundancy. Sometimes things are tried twice (or more) in
order to get them right once. :-)
Machine B will not boot from the CD at all. hal91 on floppy will boot every
time from the floppy. hal91 files on a CD will not boot
Jim Fleig - CNC Services wrote:
Can anyone shed any light on why I'm getting these tray open... messages,
Is there any possibility you have the IDE cables swapped, and the CD is
on IDE1 and the hard drive on IDE2?
Some BIOS's may be able to boot an existing OS like that, but may be
unable
BRIAN GLACKIN wrote:
To all,
Jim,
this is way beyond EMC support ... You need seek help for BASIC PC setup
elsewhere. However
While this is true, many of the people coming to EMC are from a different
planet (windoze) and learning to walk in a new land takes time and
patience. This
Jim,
As you have probably worked out by now, your problems stem
from the fact that DBan erases everything on the hard drive
including the partition tables which are the index to the
'filing cabinet'. Your easiest way to get going again would
be to start by creating a new primary partition of
Ian W. Wright wrote:
Jim,
As you have probably worked out by now, your problems stem
from the fact that DBan erases everything on the hard drive
including the partition tables which are the index to the
'filing cabinet'. Your easiest way to get going again would
be to start by creating
Rafael Skodlar wrote:
computers DO NOT SEE drives because of the partition. BIOS code knows
nothing about the partitions when it makes PC send low level commands to
hard drive: reset, read disk configuration (heads, cyl, sec/track),
seek, read raw sectors, transfer that data to memory, etc.
Jon Elson wrote:
Rafael Skodlar wrote:
computers DO NOT SEE drives because of the partition. BIOS code knows
nothing about the partitions when it makes PC send low level commands to
hard drive: reset, read disk configuration (heads, cyl, sec/track),
seek, read raw sectors, transfer that data
Jon wrote:-
Not completely true. Many BIOS's attempt to read the
partition table
and the boot sector from the boot partition during the
self-test, and
will hang there for a long time if they can't find it. I
guess it is a
stupid timeout waiting for the drive to come on line. 10
seconds
has it yet been determined that the cd is in fact working and bootable?
I've seen people download the iso with winrar or a similar compression
program installed, see the icon and open and extract the files to a folder,
then burn the dir to a cd. autorun works, but no bootability.
another issue
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
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
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
Jim Fleig wrote:PS (My attempt to replace a previous
version of Ubuntu with 8.04 has resulted in the following
error message: Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and
Press Enter. Prior to installing the 8.04 version the hard
drive was scrubbed with DBAN. I have tried several things
Wright watchm...@fastmail.fm
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Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 12:13 PM
Subject: [Emc-users] Linux installation problem
Jim Fleig wrote:PS (My attempt to replace a previous
version of Ubuntu with 8.04 has resulted in the following
error message: Disk Boot
- Original Message -
From: Ian Wright watchm...@fastmail.fm
To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 12:13 PM
Subject: [Emc-users] Linux installation problem
Jim Fleig wrote:PS (My attempt to replace a previous
version of Ubuntu with 8.04 has resulted
Jim,
this is way beyond EMC support ... You need seek help for BASIC PC setup
elsewhere. However
Jim Fleig - CNC Services wrote:
Hi Ian,
Thank you for the reply.
The boot sequence was set to CDROM, A, C.
I downloaded Ranish, unzipped and copied to a floppy. The boot sequence was
-
From: Rafael Skodlar ra...@linwin.com
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Linux installation problem
Jim,
this is way beyond EMC support ... You need seek help for BASIC PC setup
elsewhere
Skodlar ra...@linwin.com
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Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Linux installation problem
Jim,
this is way beyond EMC support ... You need seek help for BASIC PC setup
elsewhere. However
Jim Fleig
To all,
Jim,
this is way beyond EMC support ... You need seek help for BASIC PC setup
elsewhere. However
While this is true, many of the people coming to EMC are from a different
planet (windoze) and learning to walk in a new land takes time and
patience. This very stumbling block has
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