FC2: failed to boot from installation CDs
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Jul 16 00:09:58 UTC 2004
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?
You may have copied the file to the disk instead of burning the image to
the disk.
>
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