Install CDROM boot problems

Leon Kanter leon at geon.donetsk.ua
Thu Apr 1 13:24:20 UTC 2004


Shahms King пишет:

>Neither FC1 nor FC2 test 1 install CDROMs will boot from my laptop's
>firewire cdrom.  It's not a problem of the installer not working, I
>don't see any indication that any attempt was made to boot from CDROM at
>all, no ISOLINUX message, nothing.  The CDs boot just fine in my desktop
>and the RedHat 9 discs will boot (and install) without a problem.
>
>I found some similar bugs in bugzilla when going from RH7.3 -> RH8, but
>nothing more recent than that.  Is this a known issue? What changed from
>RH9 -> FC1 that might be causing this? 
>  
>
Looks like something is wrong with boot CD format. My desktop box is 
unable to boot from FC2-test2-i386-disc1.iso, while laptop booted OK. 
Media itself was successfully verified on desktop box that did not want 
to boot from it, so I think the problem is between bios and boot record.





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