FC6Pre install attemp: Can no longer get to the install CD or Rescue CD

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Sun Oct 1 19:16:01 UTC 2006


On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:15:38PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> loader on the system's harddrive.  It appears your machine has lost its 
> ability to boot from the CD drive, which paired with your install dying at 
> 70% would indicate perhaps your CD drive has gone kaput.

Some boxes will do stupid things with CD boot. One way to be sure of what
is happening is to go into the BIOS and set it to boot from CD-ROM,
and nothing else.

At least one box I have here requires that some days




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