Booting Linux Help! Help!

[Karl Larsen]

Brian McKee wrote:
> 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
>
>   
    It is possible he has a computer like mine. I loaded Hardy and when 
finally it worked I rebooted and when it came back up I got Grub error 
15. This can ruin your whole day :-)

Karl


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