From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; T312461) Description of problem: When booting from floppy created using rawrite, get "boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue". There is no other disk and when pressing any other key to continue, just repeats. BIOS does not allow booting from CD. Tried creating a floppy on a win2000 machine and was able to boot OK. Therefore, I assume the install CD's are OK. I'm assuming the problem is with XP on this particular computer, as I've heard others installing OK with XP. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot into a DOS start up disk 2. create boot floppy using rawrite 3. reboot machine 4. comes to Linux boot prompt 5. hit return key 6. Actual Results: error noted above appears Expected Results: start install process Additional info:
You are saying the Red Hat Linux boot floppy which boots into the installer fine on another machine will not on the compaq?
I did not try the boot disk created on my Compaq on another machine. I created a new boot disk on my Win 2000 machine at work and was able to boot into it on that machine. The one created on the 2000 machine would not boot on my Compaq either.
Did you run rawrite from 'MSDOS mode'? I am not sure it will work if you are in the windows GUI environment.
I boot into MS-DOS using a Win 98 boot disk that boots to an ms dos prompt and use rawrite from there.
I do not know of any problems using rawrite with a Win98 based boot floppy. You may want to try different media because I know I have had problems with bad floppy media before.
Tried several different floppies. No go! As stated earlier ... I suspect it's related to this particular model OR an issue with the BIOS. I'm truly at a loss of where to go now.
Have you tried Red Hat Linux 8 yet?
Have not tried 8.0. Got 7.3 because star office was part of the package.
I cannot think of anything else to try at this point. It appears to be an issue with your particular system as we do not see this problem ourselves.