On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:03:29PM +0000, John Haxby wrote: > manu aradhya wrote: > > > > >i think this is not the solution wht i expected.dont > >joke :|. > > > > > John Haxby write: > > >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 ---end quoted text--- I wonder, did he ever see my post and read the Installation guide? Try the hdX=cdrom at the boot: prompt, where X is your ide cdrom drive. jay -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
