going bonkers trying to install fc-5

[Jay Cliburn]

On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 19:12 -0500, Peter Horst wrote:
> 
> Stanton Finley wrote: 
> > On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 18:54 -0500, Peter Horst wrote:
> >   
> > > [snip can't boot into fc-5 boot iso]
> > > 
> > > Peter
> > > 
> > >     
> > 
> > Try entering "/isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img" (without
> > the quotes of course) at the boot prompt.
> >   
> Thanks for your reply, but I am not able to get to that point. The
> bios skips completely over linux and starts booting windows. It's as
> if there were no boot cd in the drive at all.

1.  Make sure you burned an iso image.  If you look at the contents of
the DVD and see only a single file, you didn't burn an iso image.

2.  Make sure the boot order is set to CD, followed by HDD.  (I realize
you wrote that you'd tinkered with BIOS settings, but I didn't see boot
order mentioned.)