On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 05:30 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 21:21 -0800, Dave Roberts wrote: > > Okay, here's a strange one. I'm trying to migrate a system from FC3 to > > FC6. Everytime I try to boot FC6, disk 1, it seems to think about it for > > a second and then dumps me into my FC3 GRUB setup. > > > > At first, I suspected that the disk itself was corrupted or something > > and for whatever reason wasn't being recognized as bootable. I booted it > > quite easily on a Windows machine, however, and it comes up to the > > standard boot prompt that every Fedora installation disk comes up to. > > > > Then I suspected that the CD-ROM drive might be messed up, but I can > > boot my current FC3 setup and it reads the install disk just fine. The > > hardware seems fine. > > > > So the question is, is there any reason that the FC6 CD-ROM boot loader > > might be loading my FC3 GRUB?? You seem to have booted from a different machine with a different CDROM drive quite well. This is likely a hardware issue. One fix that works for some is to use the command "linux ide-nodma". It may work for you but YMMV. > ---- > burn it again, this time at a slower speed - like about 4x > > that usually solves this problem > > Craig >
