Many older systems have CD-ROM drives that only support CD-R format. They won't recognize a CD-RW disk. That would be the first thing that I'd check. I used to have a system like that. The key question here is whether Fedora ir CentOS will even read the CD that you have. If it is indeed a media incompatibility, then no OS will be able to read it. If the CD can indeed be read, then I'd suspect a BIOS issue. -dwight- On Thursday 31 January 2008 11:23:27 am Klaus Steden wrote: > Hi there, > > I've encountered a strange issue trying to bootstrap an old Dell > 2450. It will boot from floppy, it will boot from a Dell > provisioning CD, but it won't boot from a CentOS disc (neither the > LiveCD nor a CentOS 4.5 ISO), and it won't boot its own hard > drive. > > I'm working around it using a boot floppy (!! how vintage) to > bootstrap the OS into loading, but I'm baffled as to why it won't > load itself by any other means. When Windows 2003 was installed, > it booted off the hard drive fine, so I know it -can- do it ... > but I have no clue why it won't load Linux on its own. > > Has anyone ever had an experience like this with a machine, Dell > or otherwise? It's running Fedora Core 6, so it's a fairly current > OS, and has no issues when the OS is actually loaded. > > I'm okay with it booting off the floppy but that seems like kind > of a ghetto solution, so I'd rather not have to if I don't have > to. > > thanks, > Klaus > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
