Can't boot cd

[James Kuyper]

--- Volker Kindermann <fedora at secspace.de> wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> 
> > I went to http://fedora.redhat.com/download/#room
> and
> > successfully followed the instructions there to
> > download the ISO images for disks 1-4. I followed
> the
> > link to
> >
>
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/getting-started-guide/s1-disks-cdrw.html
> > and successfully followed the instructions there
> to
> > use X-CD-Roast to create the CDs.
> 
> good.
> 
> 
> > I extracted the
> > boot.iso file from the first disk, and used the
> same
> > techniques to create a supposed "boot" disk from
> > boot.iso. However, I can't actually boot from it.
> 
> You shouldn't need to do this. Fedora's first CD is
> bootable. ...

Not the one that I made. I tried, and failed, to boot
from it, before going the boot.iso route.

> ... What's on
> your first CD? Only the image file or a filesystem
> with some directories
> and many files?

Here's a top-level directory listing for the boot
disk:
~(45) ls -l /mnt/cdrom
total 3
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 May 13
05:24 isolinux/
-r--r--r--    1 root     root          220 May 13
05:24 TRANS.TBL

Here's a top-level directory listing for disk 1:
~(46) ls -l /mnt/cdrom
total 183
-r-xr-xr-x    2 root     root          248 May 13
05:02 autorun*
-r--r--r--    1 root     root           78 May 13
05:27 .discinfo
-r--r--r--    9 root     root         5611 May 13
05:02 eula.txt
dr-xr-xr-x    4 root     root         2048 May 13
05:27 Fedora/
-r--r--r--    9 root     root        18385 May 13
05:02 GPL
dr-xr-xr-x    3 root     root         2048 May 13
05:27 images/
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 May 13
05:27 isolinux/
-r--r--r--    2 root     root        12667 May 13
05:02 README-Accessibility
-r--r--r--    2 root     root         5299 May 13
05:02 README-en
-r--r--r--    2 root     root         7465 May 13
05:02 README-en.html
-r--r--r--    2 root     root        47589 May 13
05:02 RELEASE-NOTES-en
-r--r--r--    2 root     root        67109 May 13
05:02 RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
-r--r--r--    9 root     root         1910 May 13
05:02 RPM-GPG-KEY
-r--r--r--    9 root     root         1706 May 13
05:02 RPM-GPG-KEY-beta
-r--r--r--    9 root     root         1519 May 13
05:02 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
-r--r--r--    9 root     root         1105 May 13
05:02 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide
-r--r--r--    9 root     root         1076 May 13
05:02 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
-r--r--r--    9 root     root         1232 May 13
05:02 RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         4056 May 13
05:39 TRANS.TBL



		
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