Richard Bos wrote:
Yesterday, my system stopped in the middle of the shutdown procedure. The filesystems were not unmounted at time, afaik.
Now, during boot I get "no operating system found". That might be explainable as the file system were not unmounted, but... I get the same message while using knoppix.... The bootorder is first removable media, CD, HD. What may cause this, is the MBR just correct, and does that influence booting from CD with knoppix??
Looking forward to the ultimate trick!
Assuming there isn't a floppy in the drive. If the HD and CD are on the same IDE interface, move the CD to the seconday IDE port and try to boot knoppix, it'll find the CD there, if it doesn't boot it would seem to be the CD drive. If it boots the CD, then you could have either something on the HD holding down the IDE0 interface or the IDE0 interface is broken. If the CD boot is successful, you could try first mounting the HD, if it fails, try moving it to the IDE1 with the CD and see if it reboots, that way you can see for definite if the problem is IDE0 or the HD. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====