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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 > > -- > Paul Sutton Cert SLPS (Open) > http://www.zleap.net > > > 17th September 2011 - Software freedom day > > > 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 -- Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Ten Years in the Making! www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq