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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: Bios does not support boot from cd

From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:23:18 +0000

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Sander Hartveld wrote:

Hi Folks,
    I have a old pentium 133 Mhz with 80MB Ram wich does not support boot
from
    cdrom. I do have a floppy drive  , a non bootable CD-rom drive and 2 GB
hard
    drive. How to start my installation now?
    I do have redhat 9 installed.

Take the initrd.img and vmlinuz files from the images/pxeboot directory of your install media and copy them to /boot of your Red Hat 9 installation.

If you have no separate /boot partition, add the following entry to your /etc/grub.conf:

title Fedora Core Install/Upgrade
        root (hd0,0) <- use the same value here as for your existing entries
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=8192
        initrd /boot/initrd.img

If you have a separate /boot partition, add the following entry to your /etc/grub.conf:

title Fedora Core Install/Upgrade
        root (hd0,0) <- use the same value here as for your existing entries
        kernel /vmlinuz ramdisk_size=8192
        initrd /initrd.img

Then, reboot and you should be able to boot into the installer.

Paul.