What Ben said is right. If the BIOS boot order is correct, but you still can't boot a known-to-work bootable floppy or CD, the problem isn't anything to do with SuSE linux. If your system reports such disks as unbootable, they are set in BIOS to boot before your linux hard drive, and the disks themselves are not defective, you have other system problems that I can't guess at. If the Linux partitions are not trying to boot, they can't be responsible for preventing booting from another device. You could try swapping out the floppy drive just in case, and of course it must be set to boot before your hd. Also, as Ben said, unplug the hd from the IDE cable. Sorry not to be of more help - come back with more details if no good. Best Fergus On Thursday 14 February 2002 01:35, you wrote:
delete suse's partition! how?
since i can't boot a floppy or another os cd...
when i try, the system says it is not the correct bootable type.
?
rf
-----Original Message----- From: Joshua Lee [mailto:yid@SoftHome.net] Sent: 13 February, 2002 2:18 PM To: Rick Francis; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] how is suse removed
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 08:38 pm, Rick Francis wrote:
to troubleshoot my hard drive, i want to remove suse, how can i do this?
While SuSE's not running, delete SuSE's partition. (Deleting it while SuSE is running is possibly asking for undefined behavior.)
i can't boot any other OS bootable CDROM, or a DOS floppy.
Why not?