BartPE won't boot from CD-ROM anymore

[BlackBart]

Hi.

I used to start BartPE from CD-ROM since months. It worked fine up to
a fortnight ago (last boot). Today it won't.

Instead, after the message that setup checks the hardware, the
harddrive LED lights up permanently and nothing else happens. Only a
restart gets me out of this.

There are three SATA-I harddrives installed: one (Maxtor 300GB) with
Windows XP Pro and SuSe Linux, the other two (Maxtor 300GB, Hitachi
320GB) containing only user data on NTFS. When I unplug the first
drive with the Windows and Linux systems from the motherboard (Asus
A8N-SLI Deluxe, the nvidia sothbridge connectors) BartPE boots
faultlessly.

From this I derive the fault to be on the Win and Linux boot drive.
But, both Windows and Linux (GRUB on floppy) boot OK. There where no
changes in the system that I am aware of exept for an Acrobat Reader
update two days ago (I don't think Acrobat Reader is the reason).

As a try I performed an fdisk /mbr, but to no avail. Actually I don't
know where to look first for the fault.
I'd appreciate any ideas smarter than mine.

BlackBart

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi.

I used to start BartPE from CD-ROM since months. It worked fine up to
a fortnight ago (last boot). Today it won't.

Instead, after the message that setup checks the hardware, the
harddrive LED lights up permanently and nothing else happens. Only a
restart gets me out of this.

There are three SATA-I harddrives installed: one (Maxtor 300GB) with
Windows XP Pro and SuSe Linux, the other two (Maxtor 300GB, Hitachi
320GB) containing only user data on NTFS. When I unplug the first
drive with the Windows and Linux systems from the motherboard (Asus
A8N-SLI Deluxe, the nvidia sothbridge connectors) BartPE boots
faultlessly.

From this I derive the fault to be on the Win and Linux boot drive.
But, both Windows and Linux (GRUB on floppy) boot OK. There where no
changes in the system that I am aware of exept for an Acrobat Reader
update two days ago (I don't think Acrobat Reader is the reason).

As a try I performed an fdisk /mbr, but to no avail. Actually I don't
know where to look first for the fault.
I'd appreciate any ideas smarter than mine.

BlackBart

There is no point in running fdisk /mbr - the command affects the
Master Boot Record on the hard disk but the Bart PE CD runs
off your CD. Best to post your question in a Bart forum.

 

[Xandros]

Can you boot any other bootable CD's when you have the drives connected?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

It sounds like your cd drive is no longer ahead of your hard drives in the
boot order in the BIOS.

 

[jwemail2005-1usenet9]

Can you boot any other bootable CD's when you have the drives connected?

Yes, that works in different ways:
1. As I wrote: If I disconnect the first HDD (the one with the Windows
and Suse Linux systems), BartPE boots up fine.
2. A DOS-CD with PowerQuest's DriveImage and PartitionMagic boots OK,
and both programms show all disks and their partitions.
3. Knoppix 5.3 boots up, but doesn't show the contents of the HDD in
question. The other's contents are visible.
3a) Of the HDD with the Windows and Suse Linux systems, knoppix shows
the names of every partition, but when I click on one of the icons of
these partitions, this error code shows up:

Fehler - Konquereor
A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this
message to this recepient, see message bus configuration file
(rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"
member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")


I hope this information is helpfull, and thanks again for your help.

BlackBart