Solved: FC2: failed to boot from installation CDs

[Itay Furman]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Itay Furman wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 17:23, Itay Furman wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am new to Fedora and trying to install FC2 -- and failed right 
> > > at the beginning.
> > > 
> > > My machine is IBM T41 laptop; pentium M.
> > > I tried the Installation CDs, the DVD, and boot.iso burnt on a 
> > > CD. The machine won't boot from them, and instead will continue 
> > > to boot from the HD a previously installed system.
> > > 

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> > Will the other machine boot from those disks?
> >
> 
> No :-(  See my reply to Satish Balay earlier in this thread.
> 

[snip]

> Anyway, I burnt the CDs with Macs (two different ones) so this 
> might be the problem.
> 

It was the Macintosh's! I burnt the CDs (only the 1st one to 
begin with :-) with my home linux machine and sure -- they 
booted. Now I have a nice linux system working on my laptop!

Thanks to the Fedora team, contributors, Jeff Vian and Satish 
Balay.

	Itay