On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 18:54 -0500, Peter Horst wrote: > Boy, I am having such a hard time figuring out what's wrong here. I had > a couple of old beater computers, tried to install fc-5 from a cd set. > Hash-verified, should have been decent disks, etc. No dice. Neither > computer would "see" the boot disk. Thought, "oh, well." Needed a new > box anyway. Picked up an emachines t-3418 yesterday. Burned fc-5 iso > disk 1 onto a new Taiyo Yuden 700mb disk - verified that the data is > present & accounted for (SHA-1 hash matches). And still! Despite any > changes I make to the BIOS settings, I cannot get this computer to boot > from the install disk - tried booting from boot.iso, from the recovery > disk, nothing. Obviously the common denominator here is me, but I can't > figure out what I might be doing wrong. Can a disk checkout hash-wise > and still be bad? What am I missing here? Could it be the windows > software I am using to burn with? > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > Peter > Peter, I had the same problem with an E-Machine and FC4 and finally figured out it was a problem with the CD drive. For some reason the bios would not boot to that drive. I swapped drives from a different E-Machine and it worked fine. I don't have my notes with me tonight and do not remember the kind of drive, but it drove me bananas until I stumbled on the solution. Hope this helps!! Greg
