Can't boot FC6 CD1 !?!?

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 05:30 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 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??

You seem to have booted from a different machine with a different CDROM
drive quite well.  This is likely a hardware issue.  One fix that works
for some is to use the command "linux ide-nodma".  It may work for you
but YMMV.

> ----
> burn it again, this time at a slower speed - like about 4x
> 
> that usually solves this problem
> 
> Craig
>