Re: Fail to boot RH8-cd on an IBM A31P laptop

2002-12-19 Thread Tommy McNeely
same thing happened to me on my (toshiba?) laptop.. i had to copy the CDs to my workstation and do NFS install (using a floppy to boot) tommy On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 01:10, Stephan Deckers wrote: > I recently got an IBM A31P laptop from my boss and want > to install RH8.0 on it. I already installe

RE: Fail to boot RH8-cd on an IBM A31P laptop

2002-12-19 Thread Stephan Deckers
Title: RE: Fail to boot RH8-cd on an IBM A31P laptop What BIOS version do you have ? I first installed XP Professional and XP Home edition. Could it in any way be related to it ? -Original Message- From: Dusan Djordjevic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002

Re: Fail to boot RH8-cd on an IBM A31P laptop

2002-12-18 Thread Dusan Djordjevic
> It may be that the A31P does not boot from images bigger than > 1.44Mb. iirc the RH8 boot cd (cd#1) has a boot image bigger than I do not think so. I have A31P and it boots normaly from CD 1, and all other CD-s. -- Eng. Dusan Djordjevic (RHCE) -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fail to boot RH8-cd on an IBM A31P laptop

2002-12-18 Thread Patrick
It may be that the A31P does not boot from images bigger than 1.44Mb. iirc the RH8 boot cd (cd#1) has a boot image bigger than 1.44Mb. Your problem is similar to mine with a Toshiba Tecra 8000. It will only boot 1.44Mb images. Sigh, pretty annoying stuff. You will have to make a boot floppy. Or bu