[rhaup0317]

I am trying to put fedora 6 on my dell poweredge 1400 computer. I reformatted the hard drive, and now the computer will not recognize the fedora boot cd. "No boot device available" appears every time I start up the compuyter. I'd really appreciate any help you could give me.

-RH

[steven1350]

did you install lilo or grub before the clean wipe? If not, tisk tisk tisk.

Anyways, goto your bios, and find the boot order. Make sure that the cd drive is there somewhere.

[rhaup0317]

under the boot sequence, the cd-rom device is the first one. i am pretty sure grub is installed on the pc. how can i check to make sure?

[vtel57]

Did you check the integrity of you downloaded Fedora .iso files before burning them?

[steven1350]

If grub was installed properly, then you would not get "No boot device available". This is your computer saying that nothing on the drive is bootable.

However, usually grub depends on some files on the linux partition (usually "/boot/grub"). If you deleted this, then grub has been sent to the morgue, to R.I.P.

[rhaup0317]

so am i completely done for or is there a way to fix this?

[steven1350]

try burning another copy of fedora. And do a checksum before using the disk. I have fedora 6 on my laptop and it works quite nicely

[rhaup0317]

is there anything else i can do after i try those two things?

[saikee]

I think vtel57 has already given you the direction and steven1350 did it too.

(1) "No boot device available" is a Bios message and the point to the Linux boot loader has not yet been reached yet.

(2) It appears your Fedora CD isn't bootable and suggestion has been offered to you to do a checksum on the iso integrity.

The error in (1) should disappear if (a) you feed a known bootable CD or (b) elect floppy drive to boot first and drop a bootable floppy into the drive.