Booting Linux Help! Help!

[Brian McKee]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Email Message <sh_offshore at hotmail.com> wrote:
> DOES ANYONE PERHAPS HAVE THE ANSWER TO MY PROBLEM WHICH IS THAT I CANNOT BOOT LINUX FROM MY HDD. I HAVE LOADED A BOOTABLE LINUX SYSTEM ON MY PC BUT IT WILL NOT BOOT.

as pointed out by Nils earlier, you can't just copy the CD to the
harddrive.  To boot from a hard drive you usually use a Master Boot
Record.  CDs don't do it that way.  So, your hard drive still has a
Windows Master Boot Record even though it also has the CD on it.
That's why the NTDLR message is there.   It's also tough to install
onto the same device you are booting up from.

The easiest way is to burn the cd image onto a cd,  boot from that CD
and use that to install.

If for some reason you can't do that, let us know what that problem is
and we'll point out the appropriate work around.

Brian