[ale] Debian Rescue Disk isn't rescuing

[Sara Yurman]

On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 10:04:43AM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
Thanks for the response. Had to get on the plane before I got this.  Will try it with shiny new floppies on Fried-day when I get back. 

Cheers,

Sara

> 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
> > -- 
> > 
> > Sara W. Yurman
> > Spatial Focus, Inc.
> > 
> > email: syurman at spatialfocus.com
> > voice: (404) 378-0989
> > fax:   (209) 254-9531
> > 
> 

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