Weird issue trying to boot Dell 2450 ...

[Klaus Steden]

Yeah, the CD is fine (I can read it elsewhere), so I think you¹re right
about it not being able to read CD-RWs. I wouldn¹t be surprised, this
machine is quite old (Pentium 3!!)

cheers,
Klaus

On 2/1/08 11:31 PM, "dwight at supercomputer.org"
<dwight at supercomputer.org>did etch on stone tablets:

> Many older systems have CD-ROM drives that only support CD-R format.
> They won't recognize a CD-RW disk. That would be the first thing
> that I'd check. I used to have a system like that.
> 
> The key question here is whether Fedora ir CentOS will even read the
> CD that you have. If it is indeed a media incompatibility, then no
> OS will be able to read it. If the CD can indeed be read, then I'd
> suspect a BIOS issue.
> 
>    -dwight-
> 
> On Thursday 31 January 2008 11:23:27 am Klaus Steden wrote:
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> > I've encountered a strange issue trying to bootstrap an old Dell
>> > 2450. It will boot from floppy, it will boot from a Dell
>> > provisioning CD, but it won't boot from a CentOS disc (neither the
>> > LiveCD nor a CentOS 4.5 ISO), and it won't boot its own hard
>> > drive.
>> >
>> > I'm working around it using a boot floppy (!! how vintage) to
>> > bootstrap the OS into loading, but I'm baffled as to why it won't
>> > load itself by any other means. When Windows 2003 was installed,
>> > it booted off the hard drive fine, so I know it -can- do it ...
>> > but I have no clue why it won't load Linux on its own.
>> >
>> > Has anyone ever had an experience like this with a machine, Dell
>> > or otherwise? It's running Fedora Core 6, so it's a fairly current
>> > OS, and has no issues when the OS is actually loaded.
>> >
>> > I'm okay with it booting off the floppy but that seems like kind
>> > of a ghetto solution, so I'd rather not have to if I don't have
>> > to.
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > Klaus
>> >
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