FC2: failed to boot from installation CDs

[Greg Morgan]

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.
>>>
>>>To be sure, I checked RH9 installation CDs, Knoppix 3.1, and they 
>>>boot normally.
>>>
>>>Also, I was able to mount the FC2 CDs and DVD on another linux 
>>>machine with no problem -- so I think it is not an issue with the 
>>>burning.
>>>
>>>Any ideas?
>>>
>>>	Thanks in advance for all help.
>>>	Itay
>>>
> 
> 
>>Will the other machine boot from those disks?
>>
> 
> 
> No :-(  See my reply to Satish Balay earlier in this thread.
> 
> 
>>You may have copied the file to the disk instead of burning the image to
>>the disk.
>>
> 
> This mistake was done by my collegue earlier. When I mounted such 
> CD all I see in the file system is a single file <something>.iso
> This was not the case here.
> Anyway, I burnt the CDs with Macs (two different ones) so this 
> might be the problem.
> 
> 	Thanks for replying,
> 	Itay
> 
> 
> 
Watch the speed of the drive burning the CD and the speed of the drive 
trying to run the burn.  For example I burned a set of FC2 CDs on a 52x 
burner.  The media check said they were ok.  I tried to install on 
another machine.  It failed.  The I realized the install machine only 
had a 4x drive.  I burned a copy at 4x and the install performed flawlessly.

Greg Morgan