Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 69110
ISOLINUX fails to boot from Cdrom on an old PC
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:44:15 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: ISOLINUX will not boot from the Cdrom on my old Gateway-2000 P5-75 pc. The pc booted ok with the SYSLINUX boot loader on RedHat v7.2 & v7.3. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Switch on PC 2.Insert RedHat Limbo cd number 1 3.Watch as the PC fails to boot Actual Results: ISOLINUX 1.75 2002-06-14 isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it... isolinux: Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed. Expected Results: Boot up RedHat from cdrom & run Anaconda installer Additional info: The PC has a Pentium 75MHz & 64Mb Ram. It has the following BIOS & Drives: AMIBIOS(c) 1992 American Megatrends, Inc BIOS Version 1.00.11.BS0T Hard Disk 0 - WDC AC22100H (Primary IDE Master) ATAPI - Teac CD-540E (Secondary IDE master) Of course I tested my RedHat Limbo cd number 1 on other PC's and they boot ok, so no problem with the cd itself. I also have access to another pc of the same type at my work location, and I also tried it on this pc, but it failed in the same way. I have run RedHat 7.2 & 7.3 on this PC in the past & I would like to continue to do so in the future, if you can fix 'isolinux' so it will boot!
The only solution I know might be to put the old boot image on CD #2.
ISOlinux also does not boot properly on my old (circa 1998) pc. It's a custom built machine with a newer cdrom (tried 2 different ones) both Toshiba. models XM-6102B and XM-6602B. Mobo is an aopen AP5TC (TX chipset). Both 7.2 and 7.3 install fine. Discs md5sum is correct and it works in other machines.
> The only solution I know might be to put the old boot image on CD #2. I think this may be necessary. IIRC, Mandrake did something like this with Mandrake 8.2, with El Torito on one disc and ISOLinux on another.
*** Bug 71178 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've managed to create a bootable ISO for my Toshiba Tecra by taking isolinux.bin from syslinux-1.76-pre1, copying the rest of /isolinux from disc1 and turning that into an ISO image with the mkisofs command in the Release Notes (thanks katzj). I burned a CD and could use it to get a boot prompt. Then I switched to disc1 and proceeded to install. Wheee!
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68077 ***