Easy WORKAROUND for CDROM Boot Image insanity

[sean bruno]

Thanks for working on this one!

It's good to know that others are looking at it, however I am more
interested in the causal failure here...

The CD can be booted on some CD readers, but not others.

This is what I would like to have solved.

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 11:49, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I had the same problem regarding a non-bootable CD1.
> 
> But I discovered a workaround:
> 
> * burn boot.iso (~4.2Megs) on a CD
> * run that CD and at the boot prompt insert FC2test2 CD1
>    and type:
> 
> /isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192
> 
> That worked for me so far and I'm now at the GUI welcome screen!
> Off installing now ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Hannes.
> 
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