Peter Horst wrote: > Thanks for your reply, but I am not able to get to that point. The bios skips > completely over linux and starts booting windows. It's as if there > were no boot cd in the drive at all. Alternative option: do you have a USB disk you can use? If your system can boot from USB media (most of them can, these days), you can use the diskboot.img file to start the install. See http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc5/sn-preparing-media.html#sn-preparing-usb-media for more information. My usual comment here: sometimes with CD-Rs or CD-RWs it takes so long for a drive to work out that there's bootable media there that the BIOS decides to skip to the next bootable media anyway. Very often, most of that time is taken by the disk spinning up, and the drive working out what sort of media it is. But most drives will do that anyway when you insert media. So if you can arrange for the drive door to be closed at the right point of the reboot sequence, you can get the CD to still be spinning at the right speed when the BIOS tries booting from it. And then the BIOS might even decide it *can* boot from the drive. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | Watch your grammar, teams: the double negative is a @westexe.demon.co.uk | complete no-no. | -- "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue", BBC Radio 4
