boot disk failure, insert system disk.... etc etc

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zenon · Post by **zenon** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:34 am

well, that's what I get when I tried to boot my gentoo

I remembered that the instuctions never told me to set a boot partition as active when I partitioned so I went back through the liveCD and set the boot partition as active, no luck.

running GRUB, and at a loss....

thought I followed to the letter, looks like the letter I missed was the most important!

PS: compiled the kernel, configured GRUB anything else obvious?

TIA.

ravensix · Post by **ravensix** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 4:52 am

You installed grub to the mbr?

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setup (hd0)

zenon · Post by **zenon** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 5:01 am

crap, I think you got it.... I noticed these

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# grub
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

commands in the ref guide (I was using the million-page comprehensive manual, boy I sure hope it now has the gnome/kde install manual included too!) and I thought to myself hmm I don't remember doing that....

what will I all have to do?
liveCD in -> mount boot -> ?chroot?

thanks

ravensix · Post by **ravensix** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 5:08 am

boot up the live cd and chroot with boot partition mounted to /mnt/gentoo/boot

then run grub and do whats needed,
and reboot.

as far as gnome/kde is concerned you'll also need to compile xorg or xfree which will take quite a bit, but emerging gnome or kde will take care of that.

digitalb0y · Post by **digitalb0y** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:59 pm

I also have this issue I've done

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# grub
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

also done grub-install

Also made sure the boot partition was toggled * bootable in fdisk.

I've even installed lilo and get the same message

also I've removed the /dev/hda1 partition added it back and reformatted it again in ext2 format. To no avail I still get
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.

I have gentoo on three other machines and never ran into this issue.

Thanks in adavance

-digitalb0y

Lajasha · Post by **Lajasha** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:07 pm

This may seem kinda obvious, but is your BIOS set to boot from that disk?

digitalb0y · Post by **digitalb0y** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:11 pm

Thanks for the reply... but
Yes, I also checked the BIOS for HD-0 Would be the first device to boot. I only have one hd in the micro-atx box

johnnymac · Post by **johnnymac** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 11:21 am

This may seem a bit simply put...but are you sure your Channels are working properly. I'll assume your use IDE. Check your cable first.....how do you have it set up? I mean, do you have IDE0 going to HD and IDE1 going to CDROM or what? Usually if you get a message like that and aren't using Windows....it could be a hardware issue...something as simple as a bad IDE cable.

zenon · Post by **zenon** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:15 am

what my problem ended up being is that the gentoo HD is HDD-0 since my other two drives are a an IDE RAID0 they don't count as HDD to BIOS or grub!

sorry if that doesn't help.

j-m · Post by **j-m** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:21 am

DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.

If you actually installed grub in MBR and only have one HD, then this message means that you have misconfigured boot devices order in BIOS or - more probably - that the computer cannot find the drive because of hardware error (faulty drive, cable, IDE controller...).