BIOS won't boot to CD-ROM: Workaround

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

I don't know if this would help in your case, but I followed the
directions given in 

   http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~colohan/docs/fedora_upgrade.html

to upgrade without a floppy or a CD-ROM drive. Basically it involves
copying the isolinux directory on the first CD to your /boot directory,
pointing grub at it and then rebooting. Of course you need to get all
four iso files onto your ancient machine ... somehow (ftp, nfs, scp,
wget, ...).

--- Vladimir

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Vladimir G. Ivanovic                        http://leonora.org/~vladimir
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>>>>> "cc" == Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> writes:

    cc> 
    cc> I ran into a small problem trying to install FC2 on an ancient machine
    cc> (it was surplused out by the Romans when they left Britain...). FC2
    cc> doesn't come with floppy images for installing, and the BIOS on this
    cc> thing won't boot to CD-ROM, only hard drive or floppy.
    cc> 
    cc> I tried faking it out by booting from a mess-dos partition with
    cc> loadlin, but loadlin didn't like the kernel; something about the
    cc> compression type.
    cc> 
    cc> However, I did find an elegant little workaround: install Smart Boot
    cc> Manager on a floppy. It booted the CD-ROM
    cc> nicely. http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/
    cc> 
    cc> Enjoy!
    cc> 
    cc> Could future releases include, or refer to, Smart Boot Manager for
    cc> this purpose?
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