Phil Schaffner said: > On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:22, Paolo wrote: >>snip< >> Phil, >> I tried to boot the machine with a boot disk (mkbootdisk kernel-version) >> but it failed to boot. >> Same problem with the bootdisk I made during the Fedora installation. >> >> The error message is: >> boot failed: please change disk and press a key to continue. >> >> It appears aftwer a few seconds the kernel start to boot. >> >> Feel free to mail me if you need more information. >> >> Thanks a lot. Really. >> >> Ciao > > Paolo, > > You need to make and use a grub boot floppy, as described in my last > post (or "info grub"), not an install or syslinux boot disk. Ok, now I'm sure that what I did was really silly ;-) I've just printed your email, as soon as I'll be closed to that machine I'll follow your instructions in order to make a grub boot floppy. I think I'll do it in 5/6 ours, so tomorrow you will know if I managed to fix the problem or not. Again, many thanks. -- Paolo C.