Weird issue trying to boot Dell 2450 ...

[Gerrard Geldenhuis]

I'm purely speculating here but maybe the bios is looking in the wrong
place on the CD. There might be an incompatibility between modern boot
cds and old bios...

Regards

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Klaus Steden
> Sent: 31 January 2008 19:23
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Weird issue trying to boot Dell 2450 ...
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I've encountered a strange issue trying to bootstrap an old Dell 2450.
It
> will boot from floppy, it will boot from a Dell provisioning CD, but
it
> won't boot from a CentOS disc (neither the LiveCD nor a CentOS 4.5
ISO),
> and
> it won't boot its own hard drive.
> 
> I'm working around it using a boot floppy (!! how vintage) to
bootstrap
> the
> OS into loading, but I'm baffled as to why it won't load itself by any
> other
> means. When Windows 2003 was installed, it booted off the hard drive
fine,
> so I know it -can- do it ... but I have no clue why it won't load
Linux on
> its own.
> 
> Has anyone ever had an experience like this with a machine, Dell or
> otherwise? It's running Fedora Core 6, so it's a fairly current OS,
and
> has
> no issues when the OS is actually loaded.
> 
> I'm okay with it booting off the floppy but that seems like kind of a
> ghetto
> solution, so I'd rather not have to if I don't have to.
> 
> thanks,
> Klaus
> 
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