Re: systems stopped booting linux CDROMs
From: Pedro Rebello de Andrade (pedrora_at_net.novis.pt)
Date: 03/14/05
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Date: 14 Mar 2005 07:52:42 -0800
Michael Powe <michael+gnus@trollope.org> wrote in message news:<87wtsd0wec.fsf@ellen.trollope.org>...
> Hello,
>
> I recently have this experience with two of my systems, one Dell and
> one Gateway. Both are older, from 2001. The Dell has a CDRW, the
> Gateway just a CDR.
>
> The situation is that both have, within the immediate past, quit
> booting linux installation CDs. They will, however, boot a Windows
> 2000 install CD.
>
> Huh?
>
> To install linux on these machines, I have to boot SmartBoot Manager
> on floppy and then boot the CDROM from there.
>
> Any thoughts on what might have happened? I upgraded the BIOS in the
> Gateway, that had no effect. I tried clearing NVRAM, too. No joy.
> (Although, I only did it with the "clear configuration data" option in
> the BIOS interface.) The effect is not limited to a single linux boot
> CD, it happened with Gentoo, Really Horrible and Slackware.
>
> Thanks.
>
> mp
Michael,
Some aditional info would help helping you.
What is the cd-rom interface, SCSI or IDE?
Does the system hangs on boot (possibly with some error message) or
just doesn't boot from the cd at all?
Have you tried booting any other machines with your linux cds? Did you
suceed?
Are there any changes in the device boot order in the bios? (Probably
not as you say you can boot from the w2k cd.)
I don't know about dell or gateway, but along the way i've encoutered
some compaq systems that would refuse to boot from non-dos like
filesystems. In that specifical situation they had a 'system manager'
partition that would always boot first and then issue an error with
the linux install floppys.
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