Re: Installation

["Shawn Bush" <bruindrummer cox net>]

Thanks for the quick response, but as I stated in my e-mail, my laptop
cannot boot from the CD-ROM drive. I have tried so many things to get it to
boot from that drive. The problem is with the A: drive.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob McClure Jr" <robertmcclure earthlink net>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: Installation


> On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 03:31:34PM -0400, Shawn Bush wrote:
> > re-sending this in plain-text:
>
> Thank you.  Much prefered.
>
> > Hey I have a problem with installing red hat 9 on my laptop. I have
burned
> > the images of the three installation CDs to three CDs but my laptop
cannot
> > boot from the CD drive. So I downloaded bootdisk.img and used rawrite to
put
> > it onto a diskette. When I boot the laptop with the diskette in the
drive
> > (drive A:) it gives me a screen saying redhat 9. It tells me to press
enter
> > to begin installation. When I press enter it says Loading... vmlinuz...
then
> > it says loading... initrd.img... and the next line says "boot failed,
insert
> > another disk and press any key" or something to that effect. I have
tried
> > using another diskette and i have tried the diskettes on another
computer,
> > but it does the same thing everytime. What is the trouble?
> > Thank you,
> > Shawn
>
> If your laptop will boot from CDs, then you should be able to boot CD
> #1.  See
>
> http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds
>
> for the solution.  If I'm off-base, let us know.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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