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mulluysavage
April 29th, 2010, 03:35 AM
New DVD RW drive.

New CMOS battery.

Re-loaded GRUB

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On attempt to boot from HD: "NON-SYSTEM DISK ERROR. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" (not verbatim)

Will not boot Ubuntu 9.10 Live CD

Will boot Parted Magic

Will boot Xubuntu 8.04 LTS


I'm thinking something is up with my boot sector - like, it's physically messed up. I'm thinking about cloning my OS partition to a new HD and installing GRUB there and trying that.

Totally puzzled by the fact that it won't boot the 9.10 live cd, which it did before, and I installed from. I don't know, maybe it's scratched.

cariboo
April 29th, 2010, 06:52 AM
Have you tried starting in safe-graphics mode? To do so, press F4 at the menu screen, the select try or install.

madjr
April 29th, 2010, 09:07 AM
well just wait for lucid, probably cd got bad

D3jan
April 29th, 2010, 11:35 AM
i have the same problem , and i change in BIOS , sata controler to AHCI , default was IDE

Steven_S
April 29th, 2010, 11:39 AM
I'm a bit confused... is the problem that you are unable to boot from HD, or that you are unable to boot from LiveCD?

If it is the latter, and other LiveCD's work fine (as I understand from your post), you need to test if the .iso you have and the disk are good. Instructions for that are here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto.