going bonkers trying to install fc-5

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jun 19 14:05:57 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 19:12 -0500, Peter Horst wrote:
> 
> Stanton Finley wrote: 
> > On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 18:54 -0500, Peter Horst wrote:
> >   
> > > [snip can't boot into fc-5 boot iso]
> > > 
> > > Peter
> > > 
> > >     
> > 
> > Try entering "/isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img" (without
> > the quotes of course) at the boot prompt.
> >   
> Thanks for your reply, but I am not able to get to that point. The
> bios skips completely over linux and starts booting windows. It's as
> if there were no boot cd in the drive at all.
> -- 
Well are you sure in the BIOS booting from the CD comes before booting
from the hard disk. Sounds like it is not.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>




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