John Haxby write:
i think this is not the solution wht i expected.dont
joke :|.
Just because you can boot from a CD doeesn't mean
that it's healthy.
Sorry. Let me explain further. In order to boot from a CD-ROM, you only need to read the first few sectors from the disc. You need to read a few more sectors to load a kernel, and then, finally, you get to read the rest of the disc. It's entirely possible to have a CD-ROM disc in a CD-ROM drive that can boot a kernel and get as far as looking for a file system on the CD-ROM disc only to fail at that point. It's hard to say whether this is the media (the disc) or the drive, the BIOS, the motherboard or indeed anything else. I recall having a problem similar to this once and it turned out that the IDE cable wasn't properly seated.
I would start by checking the disk in some other machine. Boot it and let it run the check-disk thing, you don't need to do an install off it. If the media is OK, then you can move on to hardware checks. Re-seating cables is easy; swapping out the CD-ROM drive for a different one is slightly tricker. It's possible that there's nothing actually wrong with the CD drive except that it's simply not supported by RH9 (although this is unlikely unless it's a very old CD drive). You could also try installing some other OS, e.g. another version of Red Hat Linux or (sharp intake of breath) Windows.
jch
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