I am closer to what I need to do. That is, I was able to get the BIOS to recognize my CDRW disc as bootable. I did this from w/in XP by using some software called Sonic RecordNow!. The program asked me to insert a bootable floppy, so I stuck in an old boot floppy of RH 7.3. So, now the PC does try to boot up via the CDRW (the drive on the target PC is not a CDRW drive) and I get the following error message: <much "normal" stuff deleted> autorun ... ... autorun DONE. attempt to access beyond end of device 03:08: rw=0, want=2, limit=0 dev 03:08 blksize=1024 blocknr=1 sector=2 size=1024 count=1 EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock Invalid session number or type of track attempt to access beyond end of device 03:08: rw=0, want=33, limit=0 dev 03:08 blksize=1024 blocknr=32 sector=64 size=1024 count=1 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=03:08, iso_blknum=16, block=32 Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:08 <and then it just stays here> BTW, I wouldn't be offended if someone held my hand a little bit here. It seems silly that I can't make a properly booting CD for FC2 from a (different) PC running XP Pro. TIA, Steve -----Original Message----- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:45:32 +0300 From: Andrey Andreev <andreev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: booting from newly burned CD To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <4157A8FC.9080603@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Steven C. Liu wrote: > Pardon this very newbie question, but I just burned all four CD's > (FC2-i386-discN.iso) onto a CDRW drive on a XP Pro machine and want to > use disc1 to boot up and begin the config process for a clunky leftover > PC of mine. I did go into setup to verify that the CD ROM drive is in > the boot sequence, and is before the C drive. You have to use "Burn image" in your recording software, instead of just copying the *.iso file to the drive. When you Explore your CDRW in XP, you shall be seeing a whole lot of files on it, not just the .iso file. Hope this helps, //Andro -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science
