On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Paul Tanner wrote: > What's the magic incantation? > > My machine finds the CD, gets to the " boot: " prompt. Then it reboots > (after each of my many guesses). I have sucessfully installed by booting > from floppy, but I'm still curious. > > BTW I have an Intel Zappa board, and my CD is /dev/hdc.
There may be something you need to do in your BIOS setup but read on before you get your hopes up. I have seen the same type of behavior on several machines. A proper bootable CD actually provides a standard floppy image for the BIOS to use for bootup. If the machine boots a rescue floppy with the same image then you would think the code on the image is properly written. I can take one of my CD products to various machines and get results that fall into 4 basic categories: 1) Nothing. The hardware/BIOS probably won't boot any CD. This could be a BIOS setup problem or a hardware problem (drive is not really compatible?). 2) LDLINUX line appears and system resets. (infinite loop) 3) LDLINUX line appears and system resets when I press enter. 4) Image boots just like a floppy and zero floppy installation is fine. On systems that exhibited behavior 2 and 3 above I have been able to install using msdos. A msdos floppy with the appropriate msdos cd drivers was booted. I changed to the e: drive, changed to the boot directory and typed boot<enter>. The kernel loaded and rescue/install menu came up. From there I was able to perform a complete install without additional floppies. I could be wrong, but I think that some of these machines are needing a BIOS upgrade. If installation from floppy or msdos didn't work either, I wouldn't be so suspicious. My experience has been that the same CD boots fine on 1 machine and not on another. Because of this, I am not buying any new motherboards without testing the CD boot capability. If there is a easy solution to this problem, I would love to hear about it. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html Now shipping version 1.3.X + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
