Boot Failed
Forum: HD Install
Topic: Boot Failed
started by: SilentDawn
Posted by SilentDawn on June 06 2004,14:52
Hi,i have a really old laptop with a floppy drive and a CD drive.
I burnt the DSL cd imge to a cd and copied the files off the cd onto the laptop. I then made a boot disk with rawrite, from the image in the KNOPPIX folder. When i try and load DSL.... i just get it saying Debin Linux - Boot Failed
Any Ideas
Posted by ke4nt1 on June 06 2004,15:28
Floppy disks are notorious for going south..Did you try a fresh floppy disk? (rawrite another copy?)
Does the laptop boot from the CDR ?
(set cd device to boot before hd in BIOS )
Did you md5sum check your .iso download ?
( Could be a bad image download )
Usually, when I see boot failures from floppy, it's a sector 0 thing.
Another floppy, fresh out of the box, has helped before.
What version of DSL are you using?
What laptop are you using?
73
ke4nt
Posted by SilentDawn on June 06 2004,15:35
ThanksU were right in one....
Duff floppy disk!!!