Re: Problem mounting DVD

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:10:40 +0000, MS wrote:

Douglas Mayne emailed this:
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:37:30 -0700, iforone wrote:

Douglas Mayne wrote:
Douglas Mayne emailed this:
I'll post it on the web everyone who cares to download it. See below.
[ snipped mucho relevant info - so find the original ;-) ]

Final Notes:
This project uses memdisk, a component of the syslinux project, by H.
Peter Anvin. That project's website is here http://syslinux.zytor.com/

This project uses SmartBootManager written by Suzhe, Lonius, and
Christopher Li.

Thanks for providing this information. It is very helpful:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Chainloading_a_bootable_CD-ROM_from_GRUB

(r) Slackware is a registered trademark of Patrick Volkerding and the
Slackware Linux Project.
Hi Douglas;
Just wanted to say a BIG thanks for all your continued work /
determination / documentation , and for making the projects / results
available -- Keep on, Keepin' on - and Godspeed to you and yours...

Kind Regards

When I realized this boot floppy uses components from three different
loaders to startup, I _had_ to make one (for curiosity, if nothing else).
It is the "double back flip" of loaders.

Thank you for those kind words, but the real credit should go to the
coders. I am amazed every time I compile a program and realize the work
which has gone into making this free platform a reality.

Hi Douglas,

I booted using your floppy into Smart Boot Loader which listed 9 CD-ROM
entries, each gave me an error code of '0x01' except one which gave
'0xAA'. None booted using the FC5 DVD. Oh well, many thanks anyway.

That's weird. I don't know if that is normal or not because I hadn't used
SBM before Saturday. When I tested it, SBM showed only a single CD (which
could be booted by selecting it.

Do you think your grub bootable CD image might enable me to boot from my
FC5 install DVD? Or to do a network connection to another machine with
the FC5 DVD image and install from there?

The grub image on CD includes only the loader. It is most likely
used when no floppy is available and the hard disk has been damaged-
perhaps by installing Windows which has overwritten the MBR. The CD
allows either reinstallation of grub or direct loading the kernel from its
location on the hard disk. There may be other uses, too. However, one
thing it cannot do is link to another CD without the smart boot manager.

My problem is essentially that I can't boot with my PC from a DVD or DVD
Drive --I don't know which. Might it be that I just can't boot from the
DVD itself but a CD (EG. FC5 Install CD Disk 1) in my DVD drive might
boot fine?

Also FC5 has 5 floppies to init an installation. If I use these might I
then be able to use the DVD to install or, as before, use a network
connection to the FC5 DVD install image?

What do you think my best bet would be?

Many thanks and regards, and thanks again for all your work in this area.

Note: comments inline.

I have setup RedHat over the network before. That is probably still an
option with Fedora. I stopped using that distro, so I can't offer current
advice. A quick search reveals this document:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc5/

I think you best bet is to either make a complete CD set, or else
do a network install by making the first CD disc only (I am just guessing
that would work.) The network install would use your DVD mounted on
another workstation and be read over the network.

--
Douglas Mayne
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