won't boot off iso cd

[Marc M]

If you put the cd into another system (regardless of os) do you see only one 
file or lots of files and directories? I did this just the other day even 
though I knew better. If you only see one file you have made a coaster; you 
should see multiple files. 

Marc

On 8/1/05, T. Horsnell <tsh at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> >Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> >> Am Mo, den 01.08.2005 schrieb Anne Ramey um 17:47:
> >>
> >>
> >>>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
> 
> When you say it 'wont boot off CD', what sort of error msg do
> you get? Is your BIOS config'd to boot from CD as the first choice,
> or is the box still actually trying to boot from your raid system?
> 
> Cheers,
> Terry.
> 
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