From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RyUwJ-00035R-81 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:01:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2972EE08E2; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:01:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B2DDE0899 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:59:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iakl21 with SMTP id l21so6759624iak.40 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:59:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OIT2TcQPiQ37OMRQKXCDe1ABUayqnqDfjxKW273cJR4=; b=L5ZOT2mrzaeWfwIdZvEIU+UEbjR3yVxYtzBNs9yIuV70RBecH12yqdB4CE3c2dkE8j zOHpXWrWNiRoYuMILw0ztWmgdIKjNj4lnOvEtSeyTDg4fbzYxsjS4lpGgEL1JcwYrTqU ORMn7goCXgpO8de3fTjm7eWtR4+JaU+mfimOk= Received: by 10.43.48.132 with SMTP id uw4mr8537557icb.17.1329512396895; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:59:56 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.222.201 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:59:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: James Broadhead Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:59:36 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Invalid boot diskette" what do I do? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 17d69f78-acbe-4650-911b-e063ab11cbaa X-Archives-Hash: c5823d45c524af92c16b5649ed874416 On 17 February 2012 20:47, Grant wrote: > LOL. =C2=A0Except not really. =C2=A0Am I totally screwed or is there some > little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD? > Everything was fine until it was rebooted. =C2=A0Multiple 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. This worked for me moderately well recently: http://superuser.com/questions/1078/harddrive-in-the-freezer-ever-work-for= -you ... in that I was able to get enough files off it to putter along until I could restore from backups.