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Hello everyone on the list, I recently downloaded the Ubuntu 7.10 live CD when I read
about Orca and was very impressed when it was able to boot my desktop machine which
had stopped working under Windows (for a change) and was very impressed when it
came up talking and detected my graphics, sound, network and SATA hard drives and
everything and was able (after downloading a codec or two) to play all the
media on my various drives. Windows needed installing to the hard drive
and about 5 CD’s worth of drivers and other bits of software to manage
that feat so well done to all involved in the creation of that. I’ve
had it up to here with Windows and JAWS which seem to be getting less stable with
each new (costly) version and have been looking for a linux solution that doesn’t
require a hardware speech synthesizer for ages. Now I want to install Ubuntu onto an internal drive (hda1)
but my computer seems to have a problem at the BIOS stage in detecting bootable
devices. It is set to go from a hard drive before a floppy or CD but it
scans the drives and just stops at a “Insert a bootable CD” prompt
(so I’m told – I have no vision at all). I know there is a
setting in the BIOS setup that can fix this because it’s happened before,
but I’ve rarely got anyone around my place with useful vision so I want
to create a floppy that will boot the copy of Ubuntu I installed onto my hard
drive. The installation process seems to have gone ok – all the
directories are there. Thing is I’ve read all about GRUB and LILO and boot
loaders etc on plenty of linux sites but can’t find anything particularly
straight forward sounding and not much at all that mentions Ubuntu specifically
– which boot loader does it use? I wonder if someone could give me some straight forward
instructions for creating a boot floppy to automatically load the copy of
Ubuntu on my hda1 partition (no menu or anything). My computer skills are
pretty advanced but I’m fairly new to linux. Thanks. Paul By the way I think creating some sort of list of known
configurations that will run the live CD is a good idea. 7.10 was the
first version of Ubuntu that worked on my desktop machine but my HP Pavilion
laptop wont make a sound when booting from it (although it can boot the O/S). |