FC1 install disk won't boot [SOLVED, sort of]

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> I have a HP SCSI CD-R/W attached to a BusLogic BT-958 (Ultra-Wide).  When
> I attempt to boot from the FC1 install CD 1, the controller detects that
> it is bootable and has no emulation, but then it immediately hangs.
>
> I have no trouble booting the RH8 admin CD (which has floppy emulation),
> and I had no trouble installing FC1 on an otherwise identical machine with
> an IDE CD-ROM.  This machine currently runs RH9, but I think I did a
> network install of that.
>
> I read in the release notes for RHES 3 that they no longer support real
> BusLogic controllers, but I did not find anything in the FC1 release notes
> about that.  Any solutions?  (I could do a network install here, but I'm
> concerned that the CD-R/W won't work after install either.  Can anyone
> allay my fears about that?)
>
> TIA.

Booting from floppy worked and the drive works once FC1 is installed.
Still don't know why the drive won't boot.

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		Matthew Saltzman

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