Bob Goodwin wrote:
I have a collection of used parts built into what I want to be an F-9 computer. I'm trying to boot from the Fedora 9 Live CD but no matter how I set the bios setup it doesn't boot. The CD drive is recognized, the light on the drive blinks while booting but it keeps telling me to insert a system disk? I have a 40G hard drive CS connected to primary master and the CD drive connected to secondary master also set Cable Select with appropriate cables [I believe]. Does this seem like a proper setup?
I NEVER trust cable select. Use the master and slave hard jumpers on the drives. In your case (with them on separate IDE buses), set them both to master.
The motherboard is ASUS P4B533-E with a P-4 processor. The 40 gig hard drive already has F9 on it but it had been set up on a failed motherboard with an AMD µprocessor on it. So I am dead in the water until I can read the CD.
Are you sure the CD is bootable? If you stuff it into another machine and look at it, you should see a bunch of files on it, not a single file. If you see a single file, you burned the CD wrong. Oh, and you're sure it's a CD and not a DVD you're trying to put into a CD drive? Most F9 media is DVD (except for the live CDs). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "I was contemplating the immortal words of Socrates when he said, - - 'I drank what?'" -- Val Kilmer in "Real Genius" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
