On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > >Hmm... it might seem silly, but try putting a CDROM in the drive - my > >system took _ages_ until I did this - looking at the logs showed it was > >trying in vain to find a FS on the <empty> CD drive... > > > >Matthew > > > I am booting linux from cd-rom
Ah.... In that case, try making a set of boot floppies (rescue and drivers disks, and possibly the base system too) - some vendor's CDs don't boot very well.. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
