upgrade problem - "boot disk failure"
 

Ok, so I formatted one of my large new Tivo drives with FAT 32 using
Partition Magic 8.0. I installed as my primary master, put my cd-rw as my
primary slave, and my original Tivo drive as my secondary master. I set up
my bios so that my system would boot from the CD-RW and I put in the CD I
burned of the ISO image referred to in Hindsale's how-to. When I tried to
boot up my system, I kept getting an error message that said "nonsystem
disk; disk boot failure". Does this mean the problem is on the FAT32 drive?
Or that the disk I burned is no good? I burned another copy of the ISO image
just in case I hadn't done it right the first time, but no luck. I didn't
expect to hit a speed-bump this early in the process. Any ideas?

In article . net,
Nikko wrote:

The only other thing of note that I can think to mention is that I was
attempting to boot using my DVD-RW drive as opposed to my CD-RW, but I don't
know if that really should matter since the DVD-RW also writes/reads CDs.
For what it's worth, I also tried booting with my Windows XP install CD just
to see if that would work and it didn't work. The hard drive was formatted
with FAT32 and WinXP is NTFS, so maybe that's why it didn't work.

It may be that your BIOS is only willing to try to boot from the first
(or only) ATAPI device that it finds when it enumerates the bus.

Make sure that you've set the BIOS to boot from the ATAPI drive as the
first alternative... force it to probe the ATAPI device _before_ it
probes the hard drive.

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