[ale] Debian Rescue Disk isn't rescuing

[Jim Kinney]

Toss the floppy and make a new one. Sounds like the floppy is damaged.
Also try having the 'floppy seek at boot' turned on in the bios. For some
reason, this has helped when boot from a floppy. It shouldn't, if the boot
order is a,c , but I had better luck with a laptop setup this way.

Also, be sure the rescue disk is not a 2 of 2 situation. It won't boot at
all if it is.

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, sara yurman wrote:

> I'm trying to install Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 755CD before I get on a
> 12:30PM flight today.  It will not allow a change in boot order to boot
> from the CD, so I'm trying to install the base from floppies.  The boot
> order is definitely going to the floppy first, but something isn't
> working right.
> 
> When I put the rescue floppy in the drive, it checks the memory then
> quits with a "Non-System disk or disk error \ Replace and press any key
> when ready".  
> 
> I'm using the same rescue disk that I used successfully on a Winbook XP
> last week, and rewrote the disk image just to be sure.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Sara
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> Sara W. Yurman
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