disk boot error

[Ron Peterson]

I have a machine built around an ASUS CUR-DLS dual socket 370 motherboard
that is giving me a "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS
ENTER" on boot.

The machine has two SCSI disks 18GB each.  It runs fine if I boot from CD
or floppy (e.g. 'rescue root=/dev/sda5').

It is partitioned for Debian Potato as follows:

/dev/sda1, Primary/Bootable, 16MB, Ext2 (linux), /boot
/dev/sda5, Logical, 2GB, Ext2 (linux), /
/dev/sda6, Logical, 4GB, Ext2 (linux), /home
/dev/sda7, Logical, 4GB, Ext2 (linux), /usr
/dev/sda8, Logical, 4GB, Ext2 (linux), /usr/local
/dev/sda9, Logical, 2GB, Ext2 (linux), /var/log
/dev/sda10, Logical, 1.5GB, Ext2 (linux), /tmp
/dev/sda11, Logical, 512MB, Swap (linux), (swap)

There are no IDE disks (the CD is an IDE device).

Switching the boot order in the BIOS around has not helped (e.g. - making
the SCSI drive the only bootable device.)

BIOS update?  I'm out of ideas.  It's way past noon, so I'm also out to
lunch...

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-Ron-
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