ntldr is missing

[s.roman]

yes! some progress. i set the 2nd hard drive to boot first, and
basically with booting from hard drive enabled in bios, and a windows
xp disc in the cdrom drive, but no floppy, the screen shows me
Non-System disk or disk error
Replace and press any key when ready

tried putting in a debian cd, the ubuntu cd, the smartbootmanager
floppy, the windows 98 se floppy, tried without any media, but it just
kept writing a new message saying Non-System disk or disk error.
replace and press any key when ready.


On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:59:12 -0500, s.roman <s.roman at gmail.com> wrote:
> tried booting from a windows 98 se boot floppy, with boot from floppy
> in bios, but same problem appears :(
> 
> 
> 
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> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:37:34 -0500, s.roman <s.roman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:38:54 +0200, Marius Bock <marius at henriska.co.za> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > NTLDR is a Windows file --- it is used during the Windows bootup process -- sits
> > > in the root of your Windows drive.
> > >
> > > Make sure your machine is setup to be able to boot from your CD-ROM and/or
> > > floppy --- this is changed in the BIOS.
> > >
> > > Marius Bock -- marius at henriska.co.za
> > > Cell:   083 412 3358
> > > Tel:    (021) 913-0141
> > > Fax:    (021) 913-0678
> > > Web:    http://www.henriska.co.za/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > s.roman wrote:
> > > > whenever I try to boot my computer from the ubuntu cd, or
> > > > smartbootmanager floppy I recieve the message "NTLDR is missing. press
> > > > ctrl-alt-del to restart". Does anyone know what I'd have to do to fix
> > > > this? I checked around the computer and I'm fairly positive it doesn't
> > > > have anything to do with the hardware. My specs are 2 PATA 20gb hard
> > > > drives, pentium 3 1ghz, 512mb ram, Geforce 2 GTS. It's a HP Vectra
> > > > VL400 MT according to the label. I'm not sure what motherboard model
> > > > it has, but it is an intel 815 chipset. Any help would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Roman
> > > >
> > >
> >
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