won't boot off iso cd

[Marc M]

Do you have another 64-bit 'live cd' like Ubuntu Hoary or something like 
that? If so, maybe you can boot to it and copy a 64 bit kernel and get it to 
work.

Marc

On 8/1/05, Anne Ramey <anner at blast.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> T. Horsnell 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.
> >
> 
> Yes, BIOS is set to boot of CD. It asks me to choose another boot
> method or insert bootable media. As I mentioned, it just doesn't work
> for 64 bit iso, a friend's 386 iso boots, but doesn't allow me to rescue
> the system because of the incompatibility. This same 64 bit iso disk
> rescued my other 64 bit system. I even made another copy, thinking it
> had somehow turned into a coaster in between systems. No luck.
> 
> Anne
> 
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