Do you think it could be drive specific? Either the drive or the media are out of spec? Can the drive really read the problem CDs?
dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/null count=200 This should report an error if there is a problem reading the media. If this works, then the CD is getting read and I do not know what to suggest. On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 10:09 -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote: > Hi all - I have a little bit of an odd situation I was hoping somebody > might be able to shed some light on. > > Somebody has asked me to take a machine with a 300+GB hard drive, and > install 5 or 6 different distributions of linux on it for them. The > idea is that they want to play with the different version for a while > before picking one. > > The hard drive is the master on IDE0, and the CD drive is the master on > IDE1. > > Here's the odd part. > > Certain distributions' install CDs won't boot. I can boot Ubuntu (both > live and install CDs), I can boot Knoppix, but I cannot boot either > Fedora Core 4 or CentOS 4.1. When I put them in, the boot process just > acts as though there isn't even a CD in the drive. > > I'm reasonably certain that both CDs are good - I used them just a > couple days ago. > > It's not boot order in the BIOS - I have that set to use the CD drive > first. > > Anybody have any thoughts? I'm more than happy to provide any required > information that I didn't post here... > -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp. 1 Court Street, Suite 378 Lebanon, NH 03766-1358 voice: 603-653-8139 fax: 320-210-3409 -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss