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From: TEK on 21 May 2008 11:07 I have a dell workstation that HAD WIndows XP on it. I used RHEL 5 dvd to install and it encountered an error which forced a reboot. I NOT cannot boot to anything but the RHEL dvd. It ignores any other boot disk including xp, bart, erd disk, etc. I tried fdisk /dev/hda and removed all partitions and tried to create new dos partition but no success. ideas? no other boot disks will boot. The disks are good and tested to work.
From: Jan Gerrit Kootstra on 21 May 2008 11:49 TEK wrote: > I have a dell workstation that HAD WIndows XP on it. I used RHEL 5 dvd > to install and it encountered an error which forced a reboot. I NOT > cannot boot to anything but the RHEL dvd. It ignores any other boot > disk including xp, bart, erd disk, etc. I tried fdisk /dev/hda and > removed all partitions and tried to create new dos partition but no > success. ideas? > > no other boot disks will boot. The disks are good and tested to work. TEK, Did you do fdisk /MBR from your WinXP install cdrom in rescue mode or from a windows boot floppy? Your WinXP install CD does not know how to remove grub from the MBR. Kind regards, Jan Gerrit
From: TEK on 21 May 2008 14:37 On May 21, 11:49 am, Jan Gerrit Kootstra <jan.ger...(a)kootstra.org.uk> wrote: > TEK wrote: > > I have a dell workstation that HAD WIndows XP on it. I used RHEL 5 dvd > > to install and it encountered an error which forced a reboot. I NOT > > cannot boot to anything but the RHEL dvd. It ignores any other boot > > disk including xp, bart, erd disk, etc. I tried fdisk /dev/hda and > > removed all partitions and tried to create new dos partition but no > > success. ideas? > > > no other boot disks will boot. The disks are good and tested to work. > > TEK, > > Did you do > > fdisk /MBR from your WinXP install cdrom in rescue mode or from a > windows boot floppy? > > Your WinXP install CD does not know how to remove grub from the MBR. > > Kind regards, > > Jan Gerrit Jan, The machines WILL NOT boot from any other CD no matter what the OS type, even ERD Disk Commander, BART CD, XP Boot cd, etc. The only disk to boot is the Linux install CD. I'm thinking something is jacked up in the bootloader and the disk has to be wiped somehow.
From: General Schvantzkopf on 21 May 2008 14:54 On Wed, 21 May 2008 11:37:33 -0700, TEK wrote: > On May 21, 11:49 am, Jan Gerrit Kootstra <jan.ger...(a)kootstra.org.uk> > wrote: >> TEK wrote: >> > I have a dell workstation that HAD WIndows XP on it. I used RHEL 5 >> > dvd to install and it encountered an error which forced a reboot. I >> > NOT cannot boot to anything but the RHEL dvd. It ignores any other >> > boot disk including xp, bart, erd disk, etc. I tried fdisk /dev/hda >> > and removed all partitions and tried to create new dos partition but >> > no success. ideas? >> >> > no other boot disks will boot. The disks are good and tested to >> > work. >> >> TEK, >> >> Did you do >> >> fdisk /MBR from your WinXP install cdrom in rescue mode or from a >> windows boot floppy? >> >> Your WinXP install CD does not know how to remove grub from the MBR. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Jan Gerrit > > Jan, > The machines WILL NOT boot from any other CD no matter what the OS type, > even ERD Disk Commander, BART CD, XP Boot cd, etc. The only disk to boot > is the Linux install CD. I'm thinking something is jacked up in the > bootloader and the disk has to be wiped somehow. Booting a CD or DVD happens directly from the BIOS, it doesn't matter what's on your hard drive. Go into the BIOS and check the boot order, your CD/DVD drive should be the first thing in the boot list.
From: Bruce Coryell on 21 May 2008 21:44
General Schvantzkopf wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2008 11:37:33 -0700, TEK wrote: > >> On May 21, 11:49 am, Jan Gerrit Kootstra <jan.ger...(a)kootstra.org.uk> >> wrote: >>> TEK wrote: >>>> I have a dell workstation that HAD WIndows XP on it. I used RHEL 5 >>>> dvd to install and it encountered an error which forced a reboot. I >>>> NOT cannot boot to anything but the RHEL dvd. It ignores any other >>>> boot disk including xp, bart, erd disk, etc. I tried fdisk /dev/hda >>>> and removed all partitions and tried to create new dos partition but >>>> no success. ideas? >>>> no other boot disks will boot. The disks are good and tested to >>>> work. >>> TEK, >>> >>> Did you do >>> >>> fdisk /MBR from your WinXP install cdrom in rescue mode or from a >>> windows boot floppy? >>> >>> Your WinXP install CD does not know how to remove grub from the MBR. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Jan Gerrit >> Jan, >> The machines WILL NOT boot from any other CD no matter what the OS type, >> even ERD Disk Commander, BART CD, XP Boot cd, etc. The only disk to boot >> is the Linux install CD. I'm thinking something is jacked up in the >> bootloader and the disk has to be wiped somehow. > > Booting a CD or DVD happens directly from the BIOS, it doesn't matter > what's on your hard drive. Go into the BIOS and check the boot order, > your CD/DVD drive should be the first thing in the boot list. > I set my boot order to floppy-CDROM-hard drive, that works pretty good. |