Debian Well Underway

[Steve Holmes]

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On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 02:57:17PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> BTW, how did you solve your boot issues, was it in fact the bios, or
> something else?

Well, last night, I dug up an old floppy and booted that way and that
worked for a while; actually, I did that since the other night
(Saturday).  I had someone look at the BIOS this afternoon as I then
couldn't boot windows, even from the floppy.  Strange but the boot
sequence changed some how and had my external USB hard drive listed
first and the other two hard disks were still showing but it wouldn't
drop down and try booting from either of them.  I kept getting the
"NTDLR missing" error.  I then unplugged the USB drive and did not
alter the boot sequence in BIOS but then the machine booted off the
hard disk (/dev/hda) using the MBR.  I have since then, plugged that
USB hard drive back in and it still boots from the internal /dev/hda
so I can't tell what really happened there.  I'm just glad it's
working right again and I can boot both systems whenever I want
without a floppy.

Guess I better button up the box and stay out of the drive bays
now. <smile>
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