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

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

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

[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

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 the

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

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 drive is

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 with linux.