Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > I have an old Netfinity 5000 server that used to run WinNT and I'd > like to install Fedora on it, any "recent" version would do (basically, > from 10 up). I started with a Fedora 12 DVD and it booted partway ... > froze, then the screen said 'Cannot find root partition.' So I decided > to try a Fedora 10 disc instead, same result. Tried using an F10 LIVE > KDE disk, same thing. It just won't boot up. > > Hardware wise, it has 2 SCSI drives in it, and an IDE DVD drive. A > dual head Matrox card has been put in to replace the original planar > video on the board. Any suggestions where I should start diagnosing > this beast? Thanks! It sounds like a problem in detecting the DVD drive. Strange, if it is just IDE. I woud try some other Live distribution, just to have more data (does if fail? what kind of controller does it see? ...). Old glorious Knoppyx, for example. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
