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A while was given an ancient Compaq SR1000 and tried to get Windows 7 on it. I don't know why I thought it would run smoothly, but I did. In my naivety, I tried to manually revert back to Windows XP and failed miserably ending up with no functional OS. Some time has passed, and I'm trying to resurrect it for fun by installing Lubuntu. Every time I get to the boot screen I am flashed with the message PXE-E53: No boot filename received
PXE-M0F: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM. I don't know what this means and was hoping the forum could help me out. I am hooked up to a Linksys WRT110 by Ethernet with a separate FiOS router in the house and suspect this may be the problem. Thanks for any help/advice.

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A while was given an ancient Compaq SR1000 and tried to get Windows 7 on it. I don't know why I thought it would run smoothly, but I did. In my naivety, I tried to manually revert back to Windows XP and failed miserably ending up with no functional OS. Some time has passed, and I'm trying to resurrect it for fun by installing Lubuntu. Every time I get to the boot screen I am flashed with the message PXE-E53: No boot filename received

PXE-M0F: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM. I don't know what this means and was hoping the forum could help me out. I am hooked up to a Linksys WRT110 by Ethernet with a separate FiOS router in the house and suspect this may be the problem. Thanks for any help/advice.

 

This has been known to happen if the Linux drive isn't set to the first spot to boot from.

 

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Exactly as dom1210df said. Check your BIOS and make sure that your boot order isn't ordered wrong.

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It looks like your PC is trying to boot from the network instead of from the hard drive. Check the boot order in the bios

I am trying to boot and install Lubuntu from a CD so I don't know if I should boot from hard drive. I made my CD-ROM the choice for all boot options

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I am trying to boot and install Lubuntu from a CD so I don't know if I should boot from hard drive. I made my CD-ROM the choice for all boot options

 

Change the boot load back to the drive first and CD drive to second. And then press the required F key (should tell you on the boot screen at the bottom left or right of the screen which) to get the Boot Menu screen, and then highlight and launch from the CD drive.

 

 

On my Compaq I do believe the F key was "F9". It might be the same, or it could be F8, F10 or F12.

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Change the boot load back to the drive first and CD drive to second. And then press the required F key (should tell you on the boot screen at the bottom left or right of the screen which) to get the Boot Menu screen, and then highlight and launch from the CD drive.

 

 

On my Compaq I do believe the F key was "F9". It might be the same, or it could be F8, F10 or F12.

Is the boot menu the same as the boot manager?

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Is the boot menu the same as the boot manager?

 

The boot menu is different than a boot manager. it is usually a pop up menu with all the boot options to pick from, seperate from the BIOS' page for editing the boot loading list. On the Compaq, it could be a pop up menu or a white-text list on a black page, I do believe. It is also sometimes called "Boot Device Menu". Here are some examples of what it looks like:

 

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=hp+compaq+boot+menu&biw=1920&bih=943&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAmoVChMI-9ffhbWKyQIVRkkmCh1e3QH8

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I went to the boot menu and chose the CD-ROM, but it brought me back to the boot manager. Could there be something wrong with the CD itself? I burned the ISO from the site to the CD from a Windows 7 laptop

You could try burning a new disc, if you have tons of those lying around.

Alternatively, you can create a bootable USB drive, they are often more reliable and should work. You may have trouble finding it in the boot manager, as they may be listed as HDD or USB HDD (those space age multi-gigabyte USB drives didn't exist when that thing came out).

Please note that due to the age of that thing it may not be possible to boot via USB. It worked fine on a 2003 thinkpad for me, but your experience may vary.

 

Apart from that, yeah, BIOS and boot order, make the CD drive/USB drive first and try again. If it doesn't work, try mashing the F key that brings up the boot options (just try all the F-keys that don't enter BIOS) and pick your boot device.

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