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? The first thing to find out is if anything boots from the CD drive. Do you have a Windows CD? If so, does that boot? If it does, I would try downloading Knoppix, and see if that works. In other words, the first step is to see if the problem has anything to do with Fedora. I doubt if it does. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
