On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 14:52 -0500, Jim wrote:
> On 02/21/2011 02:33 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > --- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jim wrote:
> >
> >> A Sony Vaio will not let me boot on
> >> cdrom with a Crashed Windows OS,
> >> trying to install Fedora only on laptop. Even if I
> >> have BIOS set to
> >> b
Just a thought
The installation is hanging on isolinux read, it seems that the USB CDROM
can't read the boot CD completely. Maybe there is something wrong with the
connetion between USB CDROM and USB port.
So, in a general suggestion is to install it from hard disk.
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:45
--- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jim wrote:
> On 02/21/2011 02:33 PM, Patrick
> Bartek wrote:
> > --- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jim
> wrote:
> >
> >> A Sony Vaio will not let me boot on
> >> cdrom with a Crashed Windows OS,
> >> trying to install Fedora only on laptop.
> Even if I
> >> have BIOS set to
> >> boot of
Whoops ignore that reply. Wrong thread!!
Martin
On Feb 21, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Martin Taylor wrote:
> I have verified the CDROM disks and have tried burning multiple disks on
> different machines.
>
> The CDROM is the first drive in the BIOS that is why Isolinux is being read
> from the CD
I have verified the CDROM disks and have tried burning multiple disks on
different machines.
The CDROM is the first drive in the BIOS that is why Isolinux is being read
from the CD during the boot process.
But the boot process is stalling around the Isolinux read process.
I was hoping to get
just installed it to hard drive
Michael
From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org
[mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Vincent Li
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 15:33
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: Re: Trying to install Fedora 14 on a Stubborn Sony
Just want to double confirm that have you set the USB CDROM for the first
boot device?
If yes, please verify whether the boot cd is corrupt? Or you could use
another CD for testing.
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:52 AM, Jim wrote:
> On 02/21/2011 02:33 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > --- On Mon, 2/21/
On 02/21/2011 02:33 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> --- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jim wrote:
>
>> A Sony Vaio will not let me boot on
>> cdrom with a Crashed Windows OS,
>> trying to install Fedora only on laptop. Even if I
>> have BIOS set to
>> boot off Cdrom.
>>
>> I even hooked a external cdrom to usb and
--- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jim wrote:
> A Sony Vaio will not let me boot on
> cdrom with a Crashed Windows OS,
> trying to install Fedora only on laptop. Even if I
> have BIOS set to
> boot off Cdrom.
>
> I even hooked a external cdrom to usb and enabled in Bios
> to be first
> boot device, won't
