Can't boot FC6 CD1 !?!?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Nov 6 12:30:06 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 21:21 -0800, Dave Roberts wrote:
> Okay, here's a strange one. I'm trying to migrate a system from FC3 to
> FC6. Everytime I try to boot FC6, disk 1, it seems to think about it for
> a second and then dumps me into my FC3 GRUB setup.
> 
> At first, I suspected that the disk itself was corrupted or something
> and for whatever reason wasn't being recognized as bootable. I booted it
> quite easily on a Windows machine, however, and it comes up to the
> standard boot prompt that every Fedora installation disk comes up to.
> 
> Then I suspected that the CD-ROM drive might be messed up, but I can
> boot my current FC3 setup and it reads the install disk just fine. The
> hardware seems fine.
> 
> So the question is, is there any reason that the FC6 CD-ROM boot loader
> might be loading my FC3 GRUB??
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burn it again, this time at a slower speed - like about 4x

that usually solves this problem

Craig




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