Fedora Core 4 Install Boot Failure

David Highley dhighley at highley-recommended.com
Sun Jun 19 17:05:33 UTC 2005


"David Highley wrote:"
> 
> "Jerry DeLisle wrote:"
> > 
> > David Highley wrote:
> > > I'm having boot failures from the DVD ISO I wrote. Did get the boot to
> > > work one time and validated that the DVD image was good. Then remembered
> > > that I had not saved off a couple of files and I have not been able to
> > > boot from the media again.
> > > 
> > What motherboard do you have?
> 
> It is a Tyan Thunder K8W AMD 8000.
> 
> > Try typing garbage at the first boot prompt then when it asks again just 
> > hit enter without anything.  That is a work around for some boards.

Typing in garbage is the right answer, which means there must be a
timing issue with the boot probe discovery process I guess. I must have
put thumb on keyboard the one time I was able to get the install process
started. Install is running now.

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> > Jerry
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