Hi guys,
I know this isnt really MP related but it is a problem i am having on my HTPC box.
I use this computer only as an media centre.
here's my setup
1 80gb ide hardrive set as a master with two partitions, one on windows xp and one running ubuntu linux.
1 300gb sata hardrive for media content only.
my bios is set to boot from the ide master and then cdrom
bios usually successfully id's my ide hardrive but sometimes it doesn't
when it doesn't i get a BOOT DISK FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK TO CONTINUE
the funny thing is, if i restart and then go to the bios boot selection screen and tell it to boot from the IDE master then it boots fine. (it actually goes to the grub boot manager installed by linux) where i then chose to boot whatever os i want.
this problem existed before i installed linux on the second partition.
it's more of an annoyance really as it takes a pillion years to go throught the boot process.
how do i fix this so that it will always boot to the grub boot manager?
thanks fod
I know this isnt really MP related but it is a problem i am having on my HTPC box.
I use this computer only as an media centre.
here's my setup
1 80gb ide hardrive set as a master with two partitions, one on windows xp and one running ubuntu linux.
1 300gb sata hardrive for media content only.
my bios is set to boot from the ide master and then cdrom
bios usually successfully id's my ide hardrive but sometimes it doesn't
when it doesn't i get a BOOT DISK FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK TO CONTINUE
the funny thing is, if i restart and then go to the bios boot selection screen and tell it to boot from the IDE master then it boots fine. (it actually goes to the grub boot manager installed by linux) where i then chose to boot whatever os i want.
this problem existed before i installed linux on the second partition.
it's more of an annoyance really as it takes a pillion years to go throught the boot process.
how do i fix this so that it will always boot to the grub boot manager?
thanks fod