From: Willie Matthews <matthews.willie@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Invalid boot diskette" what do I do?
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:50:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120217185043.6cf40c9a@mini> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw1CymxVdX=DyjCz-Dod5-S-=QYP25zx=PL3wPfGbnbq+w@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:47:36 -0800
Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> LOL. Except not really. Am I totally screwed or is there some
> little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD?
> Everything was fine until it was rebooted. Multiple reboots always
> come back to:
>
> Invalid Boot diskette- Enter BOOT diskette into A:
>
> Cracks about how if the system is old enough to have a floppy drive
> then it's overdue for a dead HD are appropriate.
>
> - Grant
>
It could be the boot sector of the drive that is bad. You should boot
off a live CD and see how far you can get with the drive. If you can
read it with no problem reinstall grub and see how it does with the
boot afterwards.
--
Willie Matthews
matthews.willie@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-18 2:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-17 20:47 [gentoo-user] "Invalid boot diskette" what do I do? Grant
2012-02-17 20:59 ` James Broadhead
2012-02-17 22:26 ` imacake/LK
2012-02-18 0:19 ` Grant
2012-02-18 2:50 ` Willie Matthews [this message]
2012-02-18 7:06 ` Paul Hartman
2012-02-18 18:30 ` Grant
2012-02-23 21:29 ` Grant
2012-02-24 20:55 ` James Broadhead
2012-02-24 21:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-26 5:14 ` Grant
2012-02-26 15:10 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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