CDROM Booting Problems

[Joseph Kubik]

What BIOS version do you have?
What type of cdrom do you have? SCSI or IDE what brand / model?
There is always some hardware that the installer's kernel does not know about.

Also, exactly how far does the install go before failing to find the
cd, when using the floppy?
-Joseph-


On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:43:41 -0500, Adam Raymond <streetsmart2-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:40:40 -0500, Adam Raymond <streetsmart2-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I made a boot disk, got into the install setup. But It couldn't detect
> > my CDROM again!!! I went to #slackware on efnet, and they told me to
> > see if a windows disk would boot. It did boot fine. So they suggested
> > I re burn the CD, I did, and the boot failed again.
> >
> > I burned the newest version of gentoo, and I got the same error.
> >
> > I'm all out of ideas...
> 
> Just to tell you all, I have used the burned isos on other systems, so
> I am burning the CD's right.
> 
> Iam booting from CD(using the bios option). The only thing I can think
> of is the battery. I currently do not have the CMOS battery on my
> motherboard. I have yet to replace it. But I don't think that has
> anything to do with my problem, since the windows 98 CD booted fine.
> 
> - Adam R
> 
> 
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