On Friday 26 December 2003 18:40, ronald wrote: > Op vrijdag 26 december 2003 19:07, schreef John: > > I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 > > installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into > > the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? > > My only thoughts right now are to possibly try a hammer but I > > would probably miss and hit my thumb. Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks > > john > > is your bios set to boot from cd first? if so try cd2... > if you have a working system you can also read the install.htm > on cd1 and create a bootfloppy > > HTH ronald
I think I read somewhere that some older systems wouldn't boot from a cd if the drive was mounted as slave. Could that be your problem? OTOH, I have been working on a friend's M$ box, where I had the greatest difficulty persuading it to boot from a cd, so there may be other possibilities. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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