Easy WORKAROUND for CDROM Boot Image insanity
sean bruno
sean.bruno at dsl-only.net
Thu Apr 8 19:06:47 UTC 2004
Thanks for working on this one!
It's good to know that others are looking at it, however I am more
interested in the causal failure here...
The CD can be booted on some CD readers, but not others.
This is what I would like to have solved.
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 11:49, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I had the same problem regarding a non-bootable CD1.
>
> But I discovered a workaround:
>
> * burn boot.iso (~4.2Megs) on a CD
> * run that CD and at the boot prompt insert FC2test2 CD1
> and type:
>
> /isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192
>
> That worked for me so far and I'm now at the GUI welcome screen!
> Off installing now ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Hannes.
>
>
>
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