February 18, 200818 yr I had my system working (and have just shelled out for the pro version) and then disaster. I've got a 500Gb disk as parity and was formatting a 75Gb disk. This however took more than 12hrs and so I restarted the PC. and now it won't boot. I've checked that the bios still points the USB drive by default and by forcing it with F11 I've tried reformatting the USB drive, syslinux it again and putting the 4.2 files on again (because I've not put any data on the drives yet) There's no otehr changes, so what could it be?
February 18, 200818 yr Just a preliminary suggestion, pull the 75GB out and retry booting. With that message, I don't believe you are finishing the initial POST, so changes to the flash are irrelevant. I don't think it is booting far enough to even look for the flash.
February 18, 200818 yr Author a good call. I'd already tried the 75Gb disk out and so went onto without the 500Gb one. Now I'm getting disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter, so I assume it was pointing at the SATA disks and not the USB...
February 19, 200818 yr I had similar issue. When changing HDD (adding or removing) some BIOS change the boot order of the HDD device. In my BIOS (ABIT MB) I can specify the boot order like first HDD, then USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, Floppy etc... But there is also another option that defines the HDD boot order which tells in what order BIOS has to try to boot on the HDD's it detects and there the USB flash drive is listed and need to be put in first place of course. But when I add a new HDD or change one, the USB flash is not the first HDD and the BIOS is trying to boot another HDD and fails. So in my case I need to select HDD as boot device and then put the USB Flash on the top of the list in the HDD boot list. so check if you don't have similar option in your BIOS.
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.