[shawnbowski]

new problem with mandrake 7.0

my brother formatted his drive, And how can he install mandrake
linux 7.0. And i can't remember how, So i can't help him. I put in the CD 1 Then it said incorrect disk or some thing like that. Can some one help please

 

[TheTechIsIn]

You need to find the correct disk 1. If you have the correct CD in the drive it will autoboot and install off the CD.

 

[shawnbowski]

He has,

CD 1 INSTALLATION DISC
CD 2 SOURCE DISC
CD 3 EXTRAS

I tried evey one, And it still says the same thing...

 

[TheTechIsIn]

Is it booting off of the cdrom of the hard drive with nothing on it..
What is the exact error message, and just to be safe double check in bios that CDROM is set to boot before "C"

 

[shawnbowski]

It says, Invalid system disk Replace the disk, and then press any
key. But in the middle of the screen it says,
PCI device Listing....
Bus No. Device No. Func No. Vendor ID Device ID Device Class IRQ
How do I make it boot to C: like you said.

Its a ASUS MOTHERBOARD, And I tried using the ASUS CD that
came with the motherboard, And it did not work...

 

[TheTechIsIn]

It appears like its skiping looking for CDs in the CDrom, go into your bios and set the boot order making cdrom boot before your C drive.

 

[shawnbowski]

How do I go, in to the BIOS and change it.

 

[TheTechIsIn]

When your system first boots up it should say Press whatever key now to enter bios or some such thing.


Common Keys: F1, F10, Del, Alt F1

 

[shawnbowski]

O.k. im in there, what should I look for. And change?

 

[TheTechIsIn]

I'm not positive all bios's address it a different way and have it in different places. But basically your looking for something that says something along the lines of "Boot Order" and it will have A,C,CD-ROM or some such variant of that, @ the very least it should say A,C now hopefully you'll have the choice to add a cdrom... if you find the place to change it but CDROM is not given as a choice post back and let me know, in that case you'll need to use the Linux bootdisk that came with the program (If you ftp-ed the ISO let me know and I'll see if I can find a install bootdisk around)

 

[shawnbowski]

Just asking, where it says Removable Device, under (BOOT) What should I have
that on? Plus Other boot Device, what should I have that on too?

 

[TheTechIsIn]

What are they currently on? and what are the options that they can be changed to?

 

[shawnbowski]

Removable Device, right now its set on (Disabled). And the option on that
is legacy floppy, LS120, ZIP, ATAPI MO And on Other Boot Device
right now is set on (Disabled). And the option on that is
SCSI/Onboard ATA Boot Device, INT18 Device (network).

 

[TheTechIsIn]

er... messing with Bios is so not my area ... were's Speedo when you need him

Try changing to ATAPI on removable and see if that does anything... (to test it, just put in CDrom1 and reboot see if you get the same message or not)

 

[shawnbowski]

I tried it and nothing, thank you any way...

 

[TheTechIsIn]

Sorry, but as I said, Im not a bios guy...

You could install it with a bootdisk if you have one.

 

[shawnbowski]

No I don't have one, But still you tried to help me. And thats a
good thing :winkgrin:

 

[Guest]

Here I is......................

OK if you haven't figured it out yet here is the scoop.............:winkgrin:

Go into the bios to the Boot section.

To the right of Removable Device highlight whatever is there hit enter and set it to disabled.

Move down to IDE Hard Drive and do the same thing.

Move down to ATAPI CD-ROM and highlight it then hit enter choose CD-Rom or Atapi Device.

Hit Esc.

Move to exit on top click enter and yes to save.

Insert the CD and reboot.

 

[shawnbowski]

It worked, THANK YOU

 

[shawnbowski]

I have a new problem, I installed CD 1 and at the end it said remove bootable media. What are they talking about. The CD or
the new boot floppy you had to make. Well I took out the CD
cuz the tray came out. Then when it was booting, it said
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER