Followed instructions after booting up with cd 2. Everything went fine. Thanks
Jim On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 05:43, Lee Wiggers wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:55:25 +0000 > Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 25 Mar 2004 10:31, bmobile40 wrote: > > > I've been trying to install mandrake10 for about a week now. > > > I keep getting a boot failure when I try to boot from cd1. I've > > > re-downloaded the iso image from 4 different locations and i > > > still get the same error. I've tried boot the machine off of my > > > fedora core 1 cd1, and don't have any problems, so I know my cd > > > drive is working. > > > Anyone else having this problem. It seems really odd that > > > you'd get > > > the same error with an iso downloaded from different locations. > > > > > > Jim > > > > What sort of boot failure? > > If it does not recognise the disc is bootable, then you should > > look at how you are burning the CD. It has to be burned as an iso > > image. If when you browse the CD you see only 1 huge file, then it > > has not been burned correctly. > > > > If however it barfs a short way into booting saying it cannot see > > the CD, then that is a known problem with some CD drives. The > > solution is to boot from CD2 and switch back to 1 when prompted. > > > > derek > > -- > > www.jennings.homelinux.net > > http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org > > > > > Sounds like the infamous "boot from cd2 then switch to cd1" problem. > Lot of that goin' on lately. > > Some boxes don't like cd1? > > Lee > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > ____________________________________________________
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