FC2: failed to boot from installation CDs

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, 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.

No such issue here (booting of FC2 CD-1 on a T40)..

Are you able to boot off these CDs on this other machine?

Satish