From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) I have a Toshiba Satellite 2595CDT laptop. The Red Hat 7.0 CD1 boots and installs just fine. The Red Hat 7.1 CD1 does not boot on its own, and requires a boot floppy for me to install. Of course, the 7.1 box set didn't contain a boot diskette like the 7.0 box set did :-). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Buy or find a Toshiba Satellite 2595CDT :-) 2. Boot the machine with the Red Hat 7.1 CD1 in the drive.
This is a known problem. The cd uses 2.88 MB boot images, and some bioses don't support booting off these kinds of cds. So, for these machines, booting off a boot floppy is necessary. I'm not sure that this is something we can fix.
Its the BIOS on the system, nothing we can do.
There _is_ something you can do! Make the second CD bootable with a 1.44MB boot image. (If I remember correctly, suse does that.) BTW I have asked Toshiba about a bios upgrade, but haven't even been able to get through to anyone who understands the problem.
I've been told that Toshiba is presently working on this issue.