On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > >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.. > > > Well, I meant that I boot from cd or from a MSDOS boot disk, then access the > CD and run boot.bat. In both cases the result is the same.
No - make a linux boot disk - you need the rescue disk, drivers disks and base system disks - the images for these are on the CDROM, along with rawrite to write them to floppies, 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/
