Hi all,
This may be very obvious but you need to set the bios to boot off the cd
or usb.
Also some hard disks have to be set in the bios to compatible mode or
whatever... been a while now.
Just have a look for options in the BIOS for HDDs.
Also pull the drive out and put it back in again. Could be a loose cable?
Ben
On 17/02/2012 10:12 PM, Eason Mai wrote:
Hi Edwin,
Does your client's computer support booting from USB? If yes, you can make a
live Linux on USB, then try boot from it, good luck.
Eason Mai
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:30:28 +1100
From: edw...@netsensecomputers.com.au
To: slug@slug.org.au
Subject: [SLUG] Help with a weird problem, please
Hi,
I know a few of you will think I'm off-topic, but I have a customer's
Vista box here that won't boot. (ducking now ...)
So I tried loading a Ubuntu live CD, then a Knoppix LiveCD. then
plugging in a USB DVD drive and trying Ubuntu again as well as Puppy -
and all had variants of the same error message, which can be summarised
as being unable to mount the CD image and therefore unable to proceed.
Most of the information on the web indicated that this often relates to
a corrupt ISO image or one that's burned at too high a speed for the
drive to read properly, but having tried three different distros (all of
which I've used multiple times in other PCs) and two different drives,
that seems pretty unlikely.
On the assumption that RAM problems may also prevent the mounting of a
drive on a live CD, I also checked the RAM, with no errors resulting.
Can anyone suggest what's going on?
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