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Re: so close..yet so very far...



On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 08:54, Luke wrote:
> Sorry for the confusion.  I don't have Win2k (or any other OS  besides
> RH) installed on the system.  Just when I thought I had everything
> figured out - my swap drive the right size, some empty space to install
> another OS on so I could connect to the internet, I put my win2k disk in
> the cd rom, rebooted....and it never booted to the CD.  Just goes right
> to the Grub boot loader thingy, telling me to select my OS (between RH
> and DOS - which is odd since DOS isn't installed)  I can't run the CD
> from RH (from any method I am aware of anyways), and for some idiotic
> reason on my part, I never installed DOS from the linux CD.

I haven't been following this thread from the start, but ....

Have you made sure that the bios is set to boot off CD first?  Have you
tried booting off of a floppy disk?  (like a dos or win9x boot disk?)

Are you sure the system isn't flashing a message across the screen
before it jumps to grub?  Something along the lines of "press any key to
boot from cd-rom" ...  Mine does that .. really annoying if you switch
your attention to something else just before that flashes and you have
to reboot all over again...  *sigh*

I'd check the bios to ensure that it's set up correctly...  Installing
Redhat should *not* prevent the bios from doing anything.  In fact,
until the bios jumps to the "read hard drive" portion of it's execution,
redhat should have absoutely 0 influence on the running of the system.

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