The RH5 cd is indeed bootable. I've done several installs that
way. I would assume the cause of the problem is the cdrom drive. SBCD
drives have strange problems like that.
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Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MicroComputer Specialist University of Tulsa
Engineering and Natural Sciences
"Pardon me, stewardess. I speak Jive."
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
> >Hi,
> > I am trying to install RedHat Linux directly from CDROM.
> > I have set the bios to boot CDROM, C, A in that order. While
> > trying to boot
> > from CDROM it fails giving the following message,
> > Boot from ATAPI CDROM: Failure
>
> > Since this didnot work I used autoboot to setup linux.
>
> > Does the CDROM has to be installed in PnP mode.? I am >using
> >Creative labs
> > CDROM. Also I don't have problem in accessing CDROM from >linux.
> >But only I
> > cannot boot from it during installation ..
>
> > Any suggestions/comments are welcome. Please cc the reply >to
> >directly also.
>
> > Thanks,
> >Anand
>
> This is because the CD isn't in a bootable format. You must use a DOS floppy
> and run the autoboot bat file.
>
>
> Igmar
>
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