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I was installing feather linux on the labtop. I had to repartition the drive to allow the acquired space. I then sent the ISO image onto the drive and rebooted in hopes of it booting. It restarts, i see the compaq logo, then a cursor screen shows up and hangs with the black screen and all I hear is drive operation noise. I have left the labtop on for two hours, nothing. I have an external CD-ROM drive hooked up, no 3 1/2 anymore, and can't access the BIOS. any advice on how to get this thing to reboot on an terms is good.thanks
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did you set the partition with the data as bootable? And you did you just extrace the iso to the disk, or did you put in any type of bootloader in the mbr?
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Sounds like a bootloader issue. Your best bet might be to just format the hard drive on another computer.
What does it do when the hard drive is removed from the computer entirely and its booted? Do you get the "Hard Drive Error" or "OS Not Found" error messages?
As for bios, try a reset by either unplugging the computer and removing the main battery and CMOS battery (if its accessible), or using jumpers if they're available. If you can't figure out how to reset the computer, try a google search. Some laptops have weird procedures.
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Oh, I didn't even catch that line. Yeah you can't just copy an ISO straight onto the disk. The CD isn't a ready made operating system. You still need partition information, a boot loader (different part of the disk), and the appropriate drivers for your hardware have to be installed.
Copying an image (iso) straight onto the hard drive only works if you are using an image of a hard drive from an identical computer. Programs like Norton Ghost create such images, and can clone computers with that method.
Now if this ISO is an actual image of a hard drive from this particular model of laptop, thats a bit of a different story. It should work, but you still have to use the program that made the image to apply the image to the new hard drive, as all the 'ghosting' programs I've seen use some form or another of compression.
At this point I'd suggest grabbing a LiveCD for Ubuntu and formatting the hard drive.
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Thanks guys for the replies. I just got a good book on this type of linux to read up on,I also grabbed a book on ubuntu, I will surely have to remove the hard drive and take it out, format it and try to access the BIOS on the laptop. I can't access it for some reason. I've went on Compaq support to get what is required(press F10 after logo runs on screen). I will try this weekend to wipe it and install the right way.
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if you are using Grub -- note security software like "Computrace" roasts the MBR daily...
Google dual boot configuration using XP boot loader, (note Vista has a completely different circus of workarounds.)
Partition in XP, format additional master partitions as FAT32 swap & FAT32 linux OS, then reboot into the linux installer. Bypass partition stage, format, and install base.
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