CDROM Boot Image insanity

Andrew Farris fedora at andrewfarris.com
Wed Apr 7 06:59:34 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 22:42 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:

> Well, I tried the CDROM images on a completely different machine (Dell
> PE 2650), and lo-and-behold the boot cdrom works...But only when I
> update the BIOS of the machine to A17(Dell Revision number).
> 
> When I try to run a BIOS prior to that revision, I have to do the
> Boot-off-of-FC1-CDROM-and-swap...

Reporting your specific machine and the bios revisions to this bug may
be helpful since you see the problem come and go--most just can or can't
boot from the cd.
-- 
Andrew Farris, CPE senior (California Polytechnic University, SLO)
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to do nothing." (Edmond Burke)





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