F7 DVD problem -
Jay Goodman
fedora-list at goody.homelinux.net
Sat Jun 9 19:46:51 UTC 2007
Check the sha1sum of the iso you downloaded and see if you download is
corrupt. If the sha1sum is correct, you might just have a bad
burn/disk, try reburning it. Also, check you bios boot order. It sounds
obvious, but do you have your cd/dvd drive before your hard drives in
the boot order.
Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
>
>
> This Fedora-7 DVD will not boot:
>
> ll /media/cdrom/ --color=no
> total 447
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 243712 May 27 06:30 fedora
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2882 May 27 06:40 fedora.css
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18385 May 27 06:40 gpl
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 May 27 06:40 images
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 May 27 06:39 isolinux
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10000 May 27 06:40 readme-burning-isos-en_us.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157555 May 27 06:40 release-notes-en_us.html
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 May 27 06:41 repodata
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1910 May 27 06:40 rpm-gpg-key
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1706 May 27 06:40 rpm-gpg-key-beta
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1519 May 27 06:40 rpm-gpg-key-fedora
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1105 May 27 06:40 rpm-gpg-key-fedora-rawhide
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1076 May 27 06:40 rpm-gpg-key-fedora-test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1232 May 27 06:40 rpm-gpg-key-rawhide
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 May 27 06:40 stylesheet-images
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3846 May 27 06:41 trans.tbl
>
>
> This Fedora Core 5 DVD boots:
>
> ll /media/cdrom/ --color=no
> total 336
> -rw-r--r-- 4 root root 5625 Mar 8 2006 eula.txt
> drwxrwsr-x 4 root root 2048 Mar 14 2006 Fedora
> -rw-r--r-- 4 root root 2307 Mar 14 2006 fedora.css
> drwxrwsr-x 3 root root 2048 Mar 14 2006 figs
> -rw-r--r-- 8 root root 18385 Apr 5 2005 GPL
> drwxrwsr-x 4 root root 2048 Mar 14 2006 images
> drwxrwsr-x 2 root root 2048 Mar 14 2006 isolinux
> -rw-r--r-- 8 root root 5294 Mar 14 2006 README
> -rw-r--r-- 8 root root 12667 Apr 5 2005 README-Accessibility
> -rw-r--r-- 8 root root 100228 Mar 14 2006 RELEASE-NOTES
> -rw-r--r-- 4 root root 166895 Mar 8 2006 RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
> drwxrwsr-x 2 root root 2048 Mar 14 2006 repodata
> -rw-r--r-- 8 root root 1910 Apr 5 2005 RPM-GPG-KEY
> -rw-r--r-- 8 root root 1706 Apr 5 2005 RPM-GPG-KEY-beta
> -rw-r--r-- 8 root root 1519 Apr 5 2005 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
> -rw-r--r-- 4 root root 2043 May 18 2005 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
> -rw-r--r-- 8 root root 1105 Apr 5 2005 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide
> -rw-r--r-- 8 root root 1076 Apr 5 2005 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
> -rw-r--r-- 8 root root 1232 Apr 5 2005 RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
> drwxrwsr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 14 2006 stylesheet-images
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4729 Mar 14 2006 TRANS.TBL
>
> I have been looking for a difference that might account for the F7
> DVD failing to boot but have not been able to determine why It's as
> though it's not even in the computer, the computer just goes on to do
> a normal system boot from the hard drive.
>
> Can anyone suggest what I might look for to be wrong?
>
> Bob Goodwin
>
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