The hard disk is not formatted to be a bootable drive, or the boot loader is
missing.
First step is to make sure your BIOS is calling up boot drives in the proper
order (i.e., floppy, cdrom, HD1, HD2, network, etc.); if that's set up
properly, then your hard disk is apparently missing the boot loader;
reinstalling GRUB or LILO (whichever one you are using) should fix this.
I would suggest if you're running an NT-based system (including XP) that you
use GRUB. LILO for some reason chokes with NT and XP on the systems I've
tried it on.
SWB
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Coulter" <wrcoulter30@yahoo.com>
To: <flalug@nks.net>; "NC Linux group" <wnclug@wnclug.org>; <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 8:57 PM
Subject: [SLUG] win 2000 / linux question
> I know that this is not a full linux question but I have to ask it. If
you would, please respond
> to me personally at wrcoulter30@yahoo.com.
>
> Here is my question or problem. I have rebuild my PC. It was a intel
p3-500. It is now a athlon
> xp1600. Now when I put the dvd drive, cd-rw, hard drive, etc, in the new
PC, the PC can't find
> the hard drive.
>
> I want you know that I have been doing this for a long time. So, I have
done all of the basics,
> checking the cables, power cords, BIOS, etc.
>
> Now when I have done this with win 98 or me, I have had no problems. The
system boots up and the
> system says, hey I am in a new pc, what changes have you made to me? But
this time I am using a
> win 2000 dual booting with red hat linux 8.0. Here is the kicker. When I
put the knoppix cd in
> the PC it runs without any problems. In fact, it finds the win2k along
with the rh 8.0
> partitions. What do I have to do to make the PC boot with the hard drive.
The error I get is "no
> bootable dirve. boot failure." I have even used the win2k boot disks and
use the repair option.
> I know that the new mother board can acccess the hard drive as ata100 and
the old mother board was
> ata66 or 33. The only other thing, is that I am using the wrong cable,
but I have never seen a
> hard drive ack this way before from that.
>
> William
>
>
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