Booting from Linux on installed LifeDrive

Judging by this review, your computer possesses a CD drive and NOT a DVD drive.
http://www.cnet.com/products/mpc-clientpro-414-all-in-one/specs/

Your best luck at installing Linux (Good choice for an old computer by the way) would be to use a USB Drive for the installation.

You should find the instructions for creating a USB Drive and for booting from live USB on the website of the Linux distribution you're trying to install.

Good luck!

Try connecting the laptop to an external monitor and see if all is working Ok with that, if it is, then you may need to get the laptop display serviced - if it does the same on the external display, then try booting the laptop from a CD or DVD such as an OS install CD (Windows or Linux) or a boot utility CD such as Hiren's Boot CD - this will allow you to test whether the problem lays with your installed operating system or with the hardware. . . .
Note: do not go any further than the initial displays if using an OS install CD unless you are using a Linux Live boot CD which will not destroy your installed operating system. . . .See http://www.hirensbootcd.org/ to download a copy of Hiren's Boot CD to burn to a CD. . . .See http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download to download a copy of a Ubuntu (Linux) Live CD.

Make it confirm that you are facing this problem is it because of windows problem or virus problem or may be your keyboard faulty.
to do that you need to have a LINUX Live CD, it may be any linux cd which can be used as a live bootable window.
After booting with Linux CD if the key board works fine than you are facing problem because of virus or window, to solve this the best thing to do is re-installing the OS.
Even after booting from LINUX the problem persist the same than you need to remove the key pad from the laptop and try cleaning it and put it back.
Still same problem than you may need to change you pad.

why not ask HP this. and not on the chat forums here,
this is NOT HP. not in the very least.
F2 sounds me , its the command to reload the OS.
did you lose the manuals on this server?
it tells you what F2 means, id be there in a heart beat at hP
in fact id down load all books on it now, because soon or now
there will be no PIII books at all, its a relic, pentium 3.

Can you boot to say a linux live CD.
or a window PE live cd?
your server will not boot to USB so, that out. (modern ways)
if yes your OS is dead, or HDD dead.

reload the OS. now. try that using the books for this server.
is it RAID? or one IDE disk.?

what does CD problem mean
why not tell the helper why is a CD in your hand
and how made it and if and OS install who's , HP or microsoft
we can not guess what you are attempting with CD in hand.
if the CD will not boot 3 disks,
1: yours.
2: linux live
3: windows live.
then the CD drive is dead, or you need DVD drive.
the newer OS needs a DVD drive, for sure.
i think (omg long ago) windows 2000 is on 800mb CD.
to boot CD you must tell BIOS to boot there first. force it.
true on all PCs and now impossible (near) with W10 and UEFI and secure boot enabled, (said or watchers looking here)

get a test CD with LINUX and test the boot.
this proves it can boot and BIOS is using it.


POST - memory count


power on self test or POST??????????????????
is this a BSOD , blue screen of ***** off a new CD from HP?
if yes the CD drive is DEAD< end of life gone and now reads corrupted data, as most do this old, buy a new CD drive.
now.

this BSOD if is, can be seen on 1000000 of posts (messages about POST, LOL where the guy doing it, used CD-r disk that are pure JUNK> or a burner old that is trashed.

please post here X your P.O.S.T screen,. I always wanted to say that.
there you go.

do you want to have Linux while you are also having Windows? Then is will be a dual boot. To do this, have another partition of your hard disk empty. Like C (windows) and Drive E(free partition).
Download the latest version of ubuntu linux and use the bootable cd to install ubuntu on the other partition

You may have a conflict with the hardware. I have had installations fail because of this. You may want to use the Ubuntu live CD to boot into Ubuntu. If this works out for you, you should be able to install.

If you cannot boot into Ubuntu using the live CD, try booting into the CD using some special boot prompts. See this How To:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html

I find nolapic noapci noapic did the trick for me on my HP.

after formating hdd u can install any op sys on ur computer, please put ur op sys cd in drive
after starting computer and boot it with this cd when u start ur computer u will get a massage "press any key to boot from cd"
and install xp from cd also format ur hdd with xp op sys
it will solve ur problum

possibly by first creating a new partition large enough for Linux OS, but does not solve your problem...try getting a VISTA startup disc from another pc (floppies if you have the drive) and startup from these.

What system is the Linux disc for, and what system are you trying to use it on? You do realize that there needs to be different builds of Linux for PowerPC processors, Pentium, Palm, etc... and I'm not aware of one for the LifeDrive, although I wouldn't be surprised... So I'm guessing you have a Mac-hardware-compatible Linux disc, and you want to boot the PowerBook from the LifeDrive. Let me first warn you that portable devices are not specifically designed for long-term, frequent, intensive access... many people have killed their iPods by trying to boot Mac OS X from them (although there are some success stories). Still want to try it? Well, the root level is the top level of the hard disk. I don't have a LifeDrive myself, but with drive mode it sounds like it should be very easy to find.... just go to My Computer on the desktop and double-click the icon for the LD's drive. There are some types of discs that can override this on Windows and force something besides the root level to open, but I've never seen this on a Mac. Nonetheless, should the Finder fail you for some reason, open the Terminal and type cd /Volumes/; ls and then it will list the drives mounted on your computer. One of them should be the LifeDrive... I don't know what the exact name of it will be, but then type: cd ./[name of lifedrive]/ [note the dot] and you will then be in the root directory. If you want to see what is currently there, type ls again. Clarification: that's LS, as in "list," not "IS." I just noticed that it's hard to tell with lower-case letters. However, the command-prompt is case-sensitive, and you must enter it in lower-case. I capitalized it in this clarification just to show what letter it is. 11