Invalid System Disk

[Bucky2216]

Probably a stupid question;

I have one computer that I dual boot with Windows XP and PCLinuxOS and KDE Desktop. Works like a charm.
Tried installing the Linux OS on a second computer by it's self, and LIVE CD runs fine, but once installed and rebooted, I get Invalid System Disk. Loaded Windows on 2nd computer. Windows boots fine. Loaded Linux to dual boot and once again get invalid system disk.  I'm sure I am missing something, but do not know what it is.

[Bucky2216]

[Solved]

How stupid can I be! My Windows training takes over sometimes.

Went into Bios and set Hard drive as first boot device, and I was in business. Seems if PCLinuxOS finds the CDROM as the first boot device, it looks no further.

I'll catch on sooner or later!

[Old-Polack]

[Solved]

How stupid can I be! My Windows training takes over sometimes.

Went into Bios and set Hard drive as first boot device, and I was in business. Seems if PCLinuxOS finds the CDROM as the first boot device, it looks no further.

I'll catch on sooner or later!

Only if there's something bootable in the CDROM. I have the CDROM as the first boot device, followed by the floppy disk, (I still have one of those) with the hard drive set as the third boot device. If the first two devices have nothing bootable in them, the machine boots to the hard drive. If I place a liveCD in the CDROM, then it will boot, rather than the hard drive, because it has first priority. When I remove the liveCD disk, the hard drive again boots.

[uncleV]

[Solved]
Went into Bios and set Hard drive as first boot device, and I was in business. Seems if PCLinuxOS finds the CDROM as the first boot device, it looks no further.

I think BIOS (Basic Input-Output System) is pointing to the booting device, not PCLOS.

Strange issue to me because if you don't have a bootable disk in one of the devices BIOS should skip to the next drive of its order and search for booting record there.