+s55 Subscriber¹ Posted March 31, 2004 Subscriber¹ Share Posted March 31, 2004 I've just finished burning the 3 iso's i downloaded to cd When i reboot my pc it jus act as if theres no cd's in the drive and continues to my os selection LILO The wierd thing is my Mandrake 9.1 cd's (which were also downloaded) work fine I;ve reburnt the cd several times now and still i cant seem to get it to boot the cd My system doesnt have a floopy drive so i cant create a boot disk Any ideas - is there anyway of putting a boot floopy data on cd and get into it tht way i current have 2 drives dvd & Cdrw drive ??? TIA Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnMarsten Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 Use a program like Nero and create a bootable cd, it takes the image file for a floppy and creates it on a cd .., you should do a check-sum on the iso files to make sure they are complete before burning them .. still worth checking now though to make sure they were Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 This problem has been mentioned before in these forums. Try making a boot floppy in Windows or use the second CD to boot from CD-ROM. Then again, I wouldn't install this version if I were you because it is full of bugs such as NVidia drivers not working (well some can, anyway), font installer malfunctioning, and some of the updates will cause your system to stall. Also, the installation interface is horribly slow. Try using Fedora or Slackware instead. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmh Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 This is a problem with fedora core 2. Get the First Core 1 cd, when it boots, swap in the fedora disk 1 (Core 2) Disk and it will work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmh Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 D'oh sorry, that probably didn't answer your question, I didn't read it carfully first. Sorry!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 (edited) As already mentioned, you should try booting off of CD 2. This worked for me. OT: Fedora Core 2 is a bitch to boot, I ended using my FC1 disc to get to the grub screen and then swap disc 1 back in and hit return. Edited March 31, 2004 by hornett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 What? I don't know what tree you guys are barking, concerning Fedora 2 Test 1 not booting from CD-ROM because I did not have any troubles, for sure! Must be corrupted ISO images or something. Or did you mean Test 2, which was release quite recently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 Yeah, I meant FC2 test 2 that was released very recently. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+s55 Subscriber¹ Posted April 1, 2004 Author Subscriber¹ Share Posted April 1, 2004 Well i eventually got it installed .... although a little problematic - my mandrake 9.1 build seems to have much better hardware support - could barely get anything working at all on 10 :( Usb was jus totally dead my audigy card (which is also supposidly supported didnt work) etcetcetc *Thinks they have really messed up version 10* I have the Fedora core 1 on dvd - 5~6 Iso's i think so when i get a chance i'll burn those and have a go! Shame really that linux a more restrictive hardware support (my system only 4 months old seems to have quite a lot of trouble with linux mainly cause hardware manufactures are up microsofts rear end and have decided not to release drivers!!!!) Thanks anyway Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomnut Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Yeah make sure you check the md5sum so you have an exact copy of the disk :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimshady89 Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Okay this may be wrong but go to the BIOS screen and under Boot or something not sure and there should be somethign like "Boot Priority" and then change it so ur CD ROM has a higher priority then hard drives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+s55 Subscriber¹ Posted April 2, 2004 Author Subscriber¹ Share Posted April 2, 2004 Theres no boot prioty on my bios but its set to boot from cd-rom first - Please i aint tht stupid - i've tried all the usual trouble shootin stuff - i think its jus a dodgy iso i have! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 2, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 2, 2004 Theres no boot prioty on my bios but its set to boot from cd-rom first -Please i aint tht stupid - i've tried all the usual trouble shootin stuff - i think its jus a dodgy iso i have! If you suspect a bum .iso, have you tried an md5sum, like randomnut suggested? That will nail it down for sure if your downloaded .iso is good before you burn, and you can use it on the CD (post-burn) to verify that it reads off the CD just as it should. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+s55 Subscriber¹ Posted April 4, 2004 Author Subscriber¹ Share Posted April 4, 2004 yeh the md5sums match up fine! so a little confused as why it didnt boot - doesnt matter now i created a boot cdrom and it installed fine.... although theres a lot of hardware driver issues :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhaygood86 Posted April 4, 2004 Share Posted April 4, 2004 There is a known problem with the MandrakeLinux 10.0 Community Installation Disks. The First CD is not bootable, but DrakX is on the disk and the disk is useable. Put CD 2 in the CD-ROM drive, that CD will boot the image. It will ask you to confirm what disk you want to boot from. Put CD 1 in the drive and when the drive is ready (i.e., the lights stop blinking if yours is like my DVD-ROM drive), choose OK on boot from CD. DrakX will start and installation will continue as normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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