Booting Linux Help! Help!

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2008/6/14 Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>:

> 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 :-)


Can't that be fixed with the Grub Live CD?


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> Karl
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