Boot Issues
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 12:54 pm
I booted off the UBCD and then selected Parted Magic as my tool of choice. The system then shut down for a reboot, but just comes up to a blinking cursor in the upper left. The DVD drive was working fine before I did this. It isn't like the problem others were having where it would start to boot Parted and hang, it does nothing after it tries to access the CD. The CD boots into Parted Magic on the other computer I have with me. I have not run into this particular issue yet.
I tried multiple burns of the disk. I have gone into the bios to turn off the CD as a boot device but it is still trying to boot from it unless I point it to the Hard Drive through the manual selection process. It will no longer boot any other CDs. So I can force it to boot to the hard disk (which the loader is corrupted on) but no matter what I do I can not seem to wipe the instruction to boot the Parted Magic loader. The system is a HP Pavilion laptop - an older one now running a Turion 64 processor. I did a few searches but I either am not picking the right terms or nobody has listed this problem. How do I correct this so the system honors the boot order and any CD I put in the drive?
Thanks
I tried multiple burns of the disk. I have gone into the bios to turn off the CD as a boot device but it is still trying to boot from it unless I point it to the Hard Drive through the manual selection process. It will no longer boot any other CDs. So I can force it to boot to the hard disk (which the loader is corrupted on) but no matter what I do I can not seem to wipe the instruction to boot the Parted Magic loader. The system is a HP Pavilion laptop - an older one now running a Turion 64 processor. I did a few searches but I either am not picking the right terms or nobody has listed this problem. How do I correct this so the system honors the boot order and any CD I put in the drive?
Thanks