unpossible251
May 10th, 2008, 03:57 AM
Hi there - hope people won't get frustrated in the presence of a total newbie!
Ok, I have
AMD 64 x2 4800
motherboard: Gigabyte S series ga-ma770-s3
2 GB ddr-2 ram
Elitegroup GeForce 8400 graphics
80GB Sata
All recently assembled, brand spanking new.
So i turn it on, can go into BIOS ok, running of 'system safe' defaults - except i've made primary drive the CD-ROM as reccomended by the 8.04 page. IDE master is the CDDVD - slave is none
So when i've done with playing BIOS, i try to get the system to read the install CD - heron 64 bit version - and it says :
DISK BOOT FAILURE - INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
Ok, so that was when I just had the ISO file on the first disk - put that in the rubbish. Second disk I burned was the proper one - with seven folders and five smaller files, including MD5. Same message still.
My theory is that having burned the CD from my old G4 emac - what i'm on now - something got lost in translation. I would dearly love to check how complete the CD is - that would be priority #1 - but can't access it from either.
Anyone got any reccomendations? Thanks for your patience!
Ok, I have
AMD 64 x2 4800
motherboard: Gigabyte S series ga-ma770-s3
2 GB ddr-2 ram
Elitegroup GeForce 8400 graphics
80GB Sata
All recently assembled, brand spanking new.
So i turn it on, can go into BIOS ok, running of 'system safe' defaults - except i've made primary drive the CD-ROM as reccomended by the 8.04 page. IDE master is the CDDVD - slave is none
So when i've done with playing BIOS, i try to get the system to read the install CD - heron 64 bit version - and it says :
DISK BOOT FAILURE - INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
Ok, so that was when I just had the ISO file on the first disk - put that in the rubbish. Second disk I burned was the proper one - with seven folders and five smaller files, including MD5. Same message still.
My theory is that having burned the CD from my old G4 emac - what i'm on now - something got lost in translation. I would dearly love to check how complete the CD is - that would be priority #1 - but can't access it from either.
Anyone got any reccomendations? Thanks for your patience!