lol! this is your standard bios error when youu are not bootable off a valid boot media, weather it abe a boot cd, floppy, or hdd with an os on it. obviously since you formatted your hdd your only other choices is a linux boot floppy which hopefully let you install via ftp, or a set of install cds. On Jan 14, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote: > I checked the docs, but I didn't see a whole lot on my error... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 3:34 PM > Subject: Re: help with install of debian and speakup!? > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Ok, I don't understand why you're resetting the bios. Going that >> route >> just complicates things because you're now going from hardware that >> you knew worked properly, to hardware which may or may not be working >> properly now due to perhaps misconfigured cmos settings. I'll say >> this >> again, go read debian's install docs. They're very well written, >> almost to the point of repeatedly beleaguering every point from the >> perspective of >> someone like myself, who has an idea of what he/she is doing. >> >> As for if your machine can boot from cd-rom, there should be a boot >> from cd option in your cmos setup. If not, you might be able to use >> smart boot manager, for which I don't remember the url right now, to >> boot from cd using a floppy disk. There are debian boot floppies, but >> some recent posts to this list suggested that they're not >> speakup-enabled. >> >> Again, I can't say this enough, go read the docs. >> >> Greg >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 01:56:22PM -0700, Tyler Littlefield wrote: >>> OK, I reset the bios with the jumper, and restored defaults, >>> every time I >>> restart, I got rid of that invalid disk error, but now I see invalid >>> system >>> disk. Is there a floppy disk or something that will give me a >>> linux-bootable >>> partition? >>> Also, how do I know if this computer will boot from cds? is there >>> a way >>> to >>> get a floppy to start the install? I think there is still some dos >>> installed >>> on there. >>> Thanks, >> >> - -- >> web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org >> gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc >> skype: gregn1 >> (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) >> >> - -- >> Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQFDyXxi7s9z/XlyUyARAuaxAJ9KmpUQfLAorTGJfMEQ8gMcEn2fZwCgkdC1 >> XLLkVwt7ZrFpMjMlou8najU= >> =3rzm >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
