Byrd, Robert <rob.byrd <at> york.edu> writes: > > > > My new 3.2GHz Pentium 4 machine will not boot the FC4 i386 > disc1 from the CD. I checked the sha1sum, made sure that the CD was the first boot > priority, and I can see the cd being read during boot. Windows XP still finds > its way to my computer screen. Sometimes it takes time for the CD drive to spin up and meanwhile the BIOS assumes there is no cd and proceeds to next device in the boot order. If your BIOS provides option for disabling the boot devices (Mine does - Shift+1) try disabling all devices other than the CD Drive from the boot order. In my case the BIOS then tries repeatedly to boot from CD Drive which succeeds after a while. HTH Parag
