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 bug IBM to put some brains in their bios :) Cheers, Patrick On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 09:10, Stephan Deckers wrote: > I recently got an IBM A31P laptop from my boss and want > to install RH8.0 on it. I already installed Windows XP > professional and Windows XP Home editon, and I can boot > the XP cd without any problems. Trying to boot the RH8 cd > fails, and the Windows boot menu appears. It seems like the > bootloader is searching the CD, because I can see some > activity. I burned the RH8 cd's a couple of weeks ago, and > installed RH8 on my previous laptop, an IBM A31M, to see > if it would give any problems. Booting from the RH8-cd #1 > and installing Linux didn't give any problem. > > If I boot from the CD on a Dell precision 220 workstation it > boots without a problem. > > Is there a problem with the A31P BIOS ? I searched the web > (especially the IBM.com) but I can't find anything pointing > to that. > > I am able to boot from a RH6.2 cd. Why can I boot from > a RH6.2 cd and not from a RH8 cd ? > > Has anyone experienced the same ? > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
