Trying to install Fedora 14 on a Stubborn Sony Vaio

[Martin Taylor]

I have verified the CDROM disks and have tried burning multiple disks on different machines.

The CDROM is the first drive in the BIOS that is why Isolinux is being read from the CD during the boot process.

But the boot process is stalling around the Isolinux read process. 

I was hoping to get some pointers on how to burn a CD that enables more debug output on that process or some specific knowledge of known Isolinux issues with certain hardware.

Thanks Martin


On Feb 21, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Vincent Li wrote:

> Just want to double confirm that have you set the USB CDROM for the first boot device?
> 
> If yes, please verify whether the boot cd is corrupt? Or you could use another CD for testing.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:52 AM, Jim <binarynut at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 02/21/2011 02:33 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > --- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jim<binarynut at comcast.net>  wrote:
> >
> >> A Sony Vaio will not let me boot on
> >> cdrom with a Crashed Windows OS,
> >> trying  to install Fedora only on laptop. Even if I
> >> have BIOS set to
> >> boot off Cdrom.
> >>
> >> I even hooked a external cdrom to usb and enabled in Bios
> >> to be first
> >> boot device, won't work,  in all cases it  will
> >> only Attempt to Load
> >> Windows.
> >>
> >> It won't even let you disable hard drive in Boot process.
> > This may be a stupid question, but have you checked the ORDER of the chosen boot devices in BIOS?  If the hard drive is first in the boot chain, even if the CDROM drive is set as bootable, BIOS will stll go to the hard drive first to boot the system regardless of a bootable CD being in the CDROM drive.
> >
> > B
> Done that, cdrom is first boot device, and hard drive is second boot device.
> 
> I think this is a Vista install and Sony has the laptop bootup setup to
> bootup  on a path to Windows on hard drive. and ignores the cdrom.
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