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Re: [LUG] installed but can't boot

 

On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 14:40 +0000, Paul Sutton wrote:
> Hi
> 
> just installed ubuntu 9.04 on a pc at the lighthouse, it seemed to go 
> fine, formatted drives etc,  however when trying to boot the system i 
> get told cannot find operating system,
> 
> the system rescue cd i have here has an option to boot from first hard 
> disk,  which i try and it says cannot find disk parameters,  the fujitsu 
> siemans bios does not see the hdd either,
> 
> any ideas ?
> 
> fdisk -l from the system rescue cd does list the hard disk and its 
> flagged as bootable.
> 
> any ideas please ?
> 
> 
> Paul
> 
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> 

Could be the HD jumpers.

 Make sure the First bootable disk is the Master and on the Primary IDE
header, if in Doubt unplug all /any other so you haven't got two Masters
on the same channel
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