Ok, thanks for the tips both * First I attached another HD. It gave the same error booting from cd. * Then I took the suggestion to go to the bios and set to default.

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(that changed my first bootingdevice priority, so I put that back to cd) but booting from cd still not work. * In the meantime I downloaded the netinstall but the same frustrating result when trying to boot it. This is sooo weird I wonder if it could have maybe anything to do with that small battery for the bios?that one has never been replaced. Could that give this effect.? Unlikely to be the BIOS battery (since you're not powering down between setting the BIOS to default and booting).

It would probably tell you that the BIOS contents were invalid if the battery was flat. Also, the clock time would come up as really historic. Okay, have you added any new hardware to the system since this last worked? Such as an add-in card of some sort? Do you have anything plugged into any USB port? If so, unplug it.

---------- Post updated at 08:11 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:08 PM ---------- Also, does your BIOS settings allow you to set the disk controller mode (eg, set to IDE, AHCI, etc)? If so, try the other modes. Phototune 3 Crackers here. Quote: * In the meantime I downloaded the netinstall but the same frustrating result when trying to boot it. If you're still booting from PATA drives, it's still liable to be the same PATA-related error. The error means it can't find the hard drive and/or cdrom.

This is with very few exceptions hard drive controller driver related, and certainly not a mouse problem. You probably need to tell the CD to load relevant drivers as I mentioned earlier.

See what options the cd has for boot and look for alternate kernels or instructions which tell it to load libata. May you should look for GRUB2 repair download. I recently installed bsd on an six year old laptop, it worked with GRUB2 repair. Nontheless, have a look at your bios first device to boot. This should work even with systemd and jessie. There is also a way to get it work without systemd. I suppose it ain't your hardware but the installer itself.

Be happy not to struggle with UEFI. Otherwise you plug in the grub2 repair on an usb-drive and then run the CD-Installation.

At least you can give it a try.