Re: Weird issue trying to boot Dell 2450 ...

[Cris Rhea <crhea mayo edu>]

I think you have something going on with that specific system...

I've still got several 2450s running in production-- all were 
booted and/or loaded from CD-R (didn't try CD-RW). 

I'm also running CentOS-- my latest machine is running 4.4
(i.e., haven't tried to load a 2450 from a 4.5 or 4.6 CD).

If memory serves me (I'm at home at the moment), a 2450 uses 
a laptop CDROM drive-- I've had *many* of these drives go flaky from 
this vintage.  

--- Cris

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