won't boot off iso cd

[Anne Ramey]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mo, den 01.08.2005 schrieb Anne Ramey um 17:47:
> 
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>>I updated to 2.6.12 kernel without updating something else necessary, 
>>apparently and have hosed my system.  The real problem is that it won't 
>>boot of disk.  We had 2 64 bit systems have the kernel problem and the 
>>other is back up and running fine.  The only disk I can get the second 
>>system to boot is off a 386 iso, which causes problems when I try and do 
>>anything (including chroot /mnt/sysimage) so I can't really rescue the 
>>system.  I'd be ok with reinstalling, because I was just doing the 
>>initial system set-up anyway, but I can't figure out how to do that 
>>without being able to boot off a cd.  The instructions I've found from 
>>booting from the network start with--boot from an iso cd (not helpful). 
> 
> 
>>Anne
> 
> 
> How did you initially install the machine in question? At that time it
> booted from your CD but now after a kernel update it does not any
> longer? Please provide hardware information, especially about the
> controller (IDE / SCSI) and what else might be important.
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
> 
The machine came with fedora 3 (kernel 2.6.10) installed, so I guess it 
did boot from 64 bit CD at one point, but I never did it.
Hardware RAID: 8-Ch 3Ware SATA 9500S-8 w/ battery
IDE Devices:  hda: QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW242C
SCSI Devices:  AMCC 9500S-8 DISK (Direct-Access)

This is the system info for the system that did come back up:
http://daredevil.blast.com/sys/
The only differences between the two are disk size and sw/hw raid. 
Daredevil has software raid, the dead one has hw raid.

Anne