Fedora Core 2 boot troubles! please help!

colonel · 09-20-2004, 04:15 AM

hey dudes i'm having heaps of trouble getting my fedora core 2 cds to boot the installation.
I'm running windows xp sp1
celeron 2 gig
256 ram
fx5600

when i turn on my pc with the cd1 in it just doesn't boot anything and keeps on to load windows.
i can't get the installation to start! i tried making a boot cd with the boot.iso file but still nothing happens! is there anything i've missed or what???

thanx heaps 4 ur help guys

Hammett · 09-20-2004, 04:41 AM

Enter the BIOS and re-order the boot sequence to first look for CD and then HD.

You most probably have HD before CD, so it boots from HD and is not reading the CD.

Hope it helps

colonel · 09-20-2004, 04:46 AM

hmmm nup i'd already tried fiddling with all the bios boot stuff
is there anyway of loading the stuff from inside windows? like emulating the setup or something?? please help!

Hammett · 09-20-2004, 04:50 AM

Mmmmm, i'm quite (95%) sure this is a hardware problem. When you boot with the CD inside, does the CD Led blink? Or just the system goes directly to load windows? Have you tried to make a Linux boot flopy to initialize the installation?

Re-check BIOS for the boot sequence...

It can be as well that CD1 is somehow corrupt and won't boot....try it with CD2 for discarting a hardware problem

colonel · 09-20-2004, 04:57 AM

good idea. i hear the cd spin up but no the led doesn't light up.
it works fine though and i have a l33t pc so i don't understand,
i was thinking of making a floppy boot for it but how? there are no files small enough. what would you suggest to make one?

Hammett · 09-20-2004, 07:15 AM

I think is on the first CD, there's a windows app to create a boot floppy that will enable you to begin the install program.
Insert the CD on windows, and it will autorun (if not, there's the exe on the CD). It's some kind of menu, where there's that little program to make a boot floppy.

machiner · 09-20-2004, 07:41 AM

You probably have this covered, but your boot-to cdrom drive should be your master...do you also have a slave cdrom drive and that is the one you are trying to boot to?

machiner