Installing 5.1 problems

[fbsd_user]

That message means one of two things, one, it's trying to read your
cd disk and it's bad, or two, it's booting off you hard disk and the
hard disk does not have mbr record.  Tell me about the history of
the hard disk.  Does the DH have a operating system on it? Can you
boot the operating system on the HD? Did you run ms/dos fdisk on it
to wipe out the old system and not do format with build boot record?
What happens when you tell the bio's to boot from HD?  Have you put
some other bootable cdrom in cd drive and be able to boot from it.
Like try to install ms/windows from the cd drive.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Nigel
Taylor
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 9:45 PM
To: fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: RE: Installing 5.1 problems

Thanks fsb_user, but that did not work still got to the same part in
the boot
process. (DISK BOOT FAILURE,INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER).

I Have now also tried a new hard drive and i am now going to flash
my bios and
use  the newest bios and see how that goes, if anyone else has any
answers i
would be grateful

Thanks

Nigel

----- Original Email -----
From: fbsd_user <fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com>
To: nigelt at iinet.net.au,freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Date: 22-Dec-2003 10:31
Subject: RE: Installing 5.1 problems

>
> Turn these off
> Plug & Play OS           NO
> Boot Virus Protection    disenabled
>
> Put fbsd install cdrom in cdrom drive and boot
> see if you get further into the boot process.
>
> You did good job documenting problem,
> make's it easier for use and you get better answer.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Nigel
> Taylor
> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 9:02 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Installing 5.1 problems
>
> Hi all
>
> I have order the 5.1 CD set, and i went into install it on my p3
> 800, with a
> Asus CUSL2 motherboard, first i went into my bios (Award Medallion
> Bios v6.0)
> and change it to boot from CD Drive, saved then rebooted.
>
> Then it came up Primary Master Western Digital WD Caviar 153B
(which
> is my
> hard drive), Primary Slave Lite-on DVD-ROM Drive XJ-HD166S. Which
at
> first
> look alright to me then it came up DISK BOOT FAILURE,INSERT
> SYSTEMDISK AND
> PRESS ENTER ummmmmm i looked in the cd-rom yes my disk was in, so
i
> changed my
> cd-rom and put in a Acer 24x cdrom and still the samething, then i
> tried
> another one iomega ZIPCD 650 4x Burner thing and still the same
> problem. So i
> went into the bios and this is what i have under the boot section
in
> the bios
>             1.CDROM
>             2.None
>             3.None
>             4.None
>
>    Plug & Play OS           YES
>    Boot Virus Protection    Enabled
>    Quickpower on self test  Enabled
>    Boot up floppy seek      Enbaled
>    Full screen logo         Enabled
>
> Then i still go the same messages after i look at the bios, I have
> no floppy
> drive also, if anyone can help i would be so grateful
>
> Thanks
>
> Nigel
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