On Tue, 13 May 2003, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: >Hi, > >I was trying to rescue a Red Hat 7.3 laptop using a Red Hat 9 CD#1. >Should this be possible? > >If I try to boot into rescue mode using CD#1 on a PCMCIA CDROM the boot >process gets as far as allowing language selection and then asks for the >location of the rescue image. If I select CDROM then it fails to find >the device. > <snip> Hmm, I guess I should clarify that I want to know how is it that the machine is able to detect and use the CDROM so that it gets to the stage of loading the image from it and then it decides, _just_ before I would expect it to give me the shell, to start complaining about the CDROM? The machine boots fine with a Red Hat 7.3 CD#1 that I got a hold of in the interval, but I still want to know what's going on and how I could work around this in the future. Should I try to build a new boot.img or something? I'm not sure how they were produced on CD#1 although I'm guessing that if I follow the instructions on the isolinux homepage it _might_ work. Thanks, Oisin Feeley
