Bug 60645

Summary:	install cd will not boot
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Donald Harper <duck>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Description Donald Harper 2002-03-04 02:44:08 UTC

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Description of problem:
Install CD will not boot

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.insert CD
2.power on
3.does not boot of CD
	

Actual Results:  no boot.

Expected Results:  boot to installer

Additional info:

This is a fairly new laptop, but the BIOS apperantly does not like booting from
a 2.88M boot image.  The system will boot RH 6.2 just fine.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-03-04 20:33:38 UTC

There are laptops which do not boot the 2.88M image properly.  You can work
around this by booting from floppy.