[NTLUG:Discuss] boot failed on install cd

[Fred James]

Fred James wrote:

> The box is a Dell Demension XPS T700r (more details upon request)
> The problem is booting from a Linux install CD, and the error message 
> is "boot failed"
> I have swapped out CD-ROM drives and the results remain consistant.
> I have tried CDs from "boxed sets" and from sets burned to CD-R disk, 
> either as copies of original "boxed sets", or from downloads.
> The only set that booted (and by the way, it successfully completed 
> the install) was a set I made from ISO images I downloaded for 
> Mandrake 9.1
>
> For the purposes at hand (specific testing I have to do) I really need 
> to get Red Hat 7.1 loaded on that box (my original "boxed set" will 
> not boot on this machine, while they will on other machines).
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks.
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How quickly we forget - or at least I do - I made the boot floppy from 
the boot.img file on the CD, just as they always told us to in the "old 
days", changhed the boot order in BIOS, and all is right in the world again.