Tyler, I believe disk boot failure is a BIOS error, not a linux error. It can happen if there is no drive, or the drive is not bootable, it could also happen if the BIOS boot options are not set properly, usually listed as boot priority, you usually want something like floppy, cdrom, ide0, ide1 boot priority. If the cables all seem okay I the next thing to check would be if the BIOS is seeing the drive. On modern BIOS the drives will usually be set to auto but if you press F8 it will detect the drives and show you them in BIOS (may be a different function key for a different BIOS). Confirm that BIOS is seeing the drive, and showing it as master, then check the boot priority settings in BIOS to make sure IDE0 is in the boot priority list. There are also settings in BIOS for the hard drive DMA mode, the lowest mode being PIO0, which is original IDE. If still not booting try setting that the lowest possible mode. The highest mode is probably PIO5 or Ultra DMA, or UDMA 133. At this point, after checking BIOS, if it sees the drive as master, IDE0 is in the boot list, the DMA mode is lowest PIO0, and it still won't boot, I would suggest putting it back in the original machine and making sure it boots. If it doesn't boot there I would check the partition table using fdisk or cfdisk or similar, check the bootable flag and make sure a partition is marked as bootable, and it's the correct partition, the one with grub installed. You can do this by booting from a linux CD and running fdisk -l or cfdisk. If BIOS on target system is seeing the drive as master and the drive will boot in original machine, then I'd say its time to try a different drive in target motherboard to make sure the IDE controller is working okay. -- Doug
