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Forgot to put old_rootvg to sleep before reboot - How to Wake
Here is what I did: 1. Wired the system together. 2. BIOS showed the right storage devices in the right places. 3. Set the boot order CD then hard disk. 4. Used lilo. Basically it looked like a normal install with no hiccups once it got past the initial configuration issue. 7. Reboot and ... Not so good.

no system disk after every reboot
Therefore I want to have a good plan in place in case a reboot of the server happens and I need to deal with the issue. I can browse my image which indicates it should be good to .... The system state backup failed which I know is no good. Here's the errors from that Backup started on Friday 02/15/2008 at 15:59 PM.

Can't Install Windows Xp on Computer from HELL
I can get to windows xppro if I use install cd and go to recovery and fix boot. After I reboot to vista home basic dvd and do repair startup. reboot and get Installed Vista from image to c: drive and used shrink drive frome disk manager to create partition or unallocated space then from an ghost image file

2008.0 on ECS AMD690GM-M2 motherboard - help!
... 23 Jan 2005 13:30:20 GMT, "Rod and Cindy Hall" <coasterh...@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote: Installing a fresh copy of Winxp pro, install goes fine. When you reboot, it cant find the system disk. I run a repair off the xp cd and all is fine, until reboot, then same prob. Tried a new harddrive, no help.

Trouble with new display and Device Manager
I've been working on computers for many years so in the last two weeks have tried a number of fixes to no effect. This included removing all extraneous hardware so that only the built-in video and the corrupt hard drive were in the system. I've also cleared the CMOS settings. I even got another Vista install disk

Vista partition recognition / windows xp partition recognition?
I tried rebooting and it said it could not load the root filesystem and complained about error reading disk and input/output error and I heard beeping I was able to install Ubuntu 7.04 onto my external SCSI disk (ATA/IDE interface enclosure connected to laptop via USB) but my system's BIOS doesn't seem to

Current problem reports assigned to freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org
Jonathan Katz wrote: We are trying to install Redhat 5.1 on a new PC (no other OS). Installation seems to go OK, but it refuses to reboot from hard disk, demanding boot floppy instead, with the error message: not found any active partition in HDD [but the hard disc is hda!] disk boot failure, insert system disk and

Funny Story!
After the reboot, Konqueror did show the new .26 version. And a new boot Of course. But when I tried to connect to the Internet with my Conexant stinking winmodem, but I remembered the System Rescue function of the Mandrake Hardly anything to "remember"! install disk. So I tried that, and reinstalled Lilo.

Apple II Csa2 FAQs: Applications, Part 4/25
Installing a fresh copy of Winxp pro, install goes fine. When you reboot, it cant find the system disk. I run a repair off the xp cd and all is fine, until reboot, then same prob. Tried a new harddrive, no help. Formatted the drive a dozen times with same resuls. Any suggestions?

Why is Apple taking so long?!
Ok, created the slipstream windows disk and ran system file checker. I had to enter retry numerous times as the blue status bar made its way across, Will reboot and try again to see if that works. If not will try repair installation. However, would that not set me back to xp with sp2 only...ie no updates?

Urgent help needed !!
Considering that we have no data yet on that machine, I was thinking that the best action could be to reinstall the operating system from scratch. However, once you have stashed away a copy of your license.dat files you can reboot the system, select software install, and start with the 6.3 disk.

PB Archaeologist needed
Just install the Node B system disk in Node A, boot the VMS CD on node A, and tell it to upgrade the node B disk, instead of Node A's. When it finishes and tells you to reboot from the disk to finish the upgrade process, just shutdown, move the disk back to Node B and reboot there. It should be done with the CD at

Upgrade from Basic Partition 80GB disk to Dynamic 160GB - will not ...
The machine has no trouble booting either into WinME or XP. As I remove the old D disk when I put in the new system disk, it also comes up as drive D. I then use PM Disk C is the original ME installation and XP is running on Disk E, the extended partition. As far as I can tell, the copy occurred successfully,

no system disk after every reboot
Installing a fresh copy of Winxp pro, install goes fine. When you reboot, it cant find the system disk. I run a repair off the xp cd and all is fine, until reboot, then same prob. Tried a new harddrive, no help. Formatted the drive a dozen times with same resuls. Any suggestions? i take it you used fdisk? did you

Packard Bell - Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk, and ...
Attempt to install a cheap non-vista game: Program installs without a prompt. Allow computer to sleep: Nag upon return to life. Reboot: Nag upon return to life. Disabling nag prevents any security center issue from notifying you it is in trouble. Using secpol.msc to set UAC to No Prompts gave exact same results and

problem with solaris (all version)
I recently changed from a an AMD K6-2 300 with an MVP3 mb to this Intel SE440BX-2 and P!!! 500. All the drives were working fine in it before I changed. Now I get an annoying Invalid System disk on my Maxtor 10GB on reboot. I have already done a format c: /s and Win98 install to no avail. TIA for any help...

Boot.Ini and recovery Console
So did a clean install of Me loaded all the drivers etc and it seems to behave. Started loading other applications and it started to lock up and required Asked him to reboot it a few times and one boot the said it made a strange noise and ask for a system disk. Ah, hard disk I thought, but the HDD checked out

I've given up..GoodBye!
I have formated the harddrive but am unable to install Win98, the boot disk loads, it gets to "copying files needed for windows setup". "Please remove any floppy disks from your drives and press any key to restart your system". But on doing this I get the following: "Non-system disk or disk error, Replace and press

File system issues on system partition
At end of restore, directed to remove diskette and hit enter to reboot. "Non-system disk or disk error" reported. Yow. Doesn't one need to put a system on the I reboot from the Windows95 install upgrade pack floppy, and run thru the same procedures as before. Plenty of room this time since there are no user

HD problems
I have a dual disk system, with vista installed on the second disc; boot manager grub. After several update failures - install, reboot vista, automatic reboot, install failure - I choose boot from second disc in BIOS boot menu, so skipping grub. With this no problems during update procedure were noticed.