Dear Colleagues,
I am responding to: "Fedora Core 2 test3 Available! Notable changes in this release include: - The 'CD1 won't boot' issue appears to be resolved. Any reports of continued failure are certainly appreciated."
This is very good news for those using linux-bootable CDROM. Attached tables show that most of Intel main boards are not linux compatible and many Intel BIOS drivers consider the linux boot CDROM just as a CDROM. My Intel Desktop Board D845BG featuring Intel Express Installer belongs to this category and so many of my students PC.
Before kernel 2.6 that was no problem because boot-floppies were doing the job.
A solution now seems to develop a sort of two-floppy boot system. That will help people without linux-bootable CDROM's or similar devices. It would be usefull for others, too, because floppy-boot is very simple and convenient.
Best regards Jonas Mockus
On Monday 03 May 2004 13:59, jonas2@optimum2.mii.lt wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I am responding to: "Fedora Core 2 test3 Available! Notable changes in this release include:
- The 'CD1 won't boot' issue appears to be resolved. Any reports of continued failure are certainly appreciated."
This is very good news for those using linux-bootable CDROM. Attached tables show that most of Intel main boards are not linux compatible and many Intel BIOS drivers consider the linux boot CDROM just as a CDROM. My Intel Desktop Board D845BG featuring Intel Express Installer belongs to this category and so many of my students PC.
Before kernel 2.6 that was no problem because boot-floppies were doing the job.
A solution now seems to develop a sort of two-floppy boot system. That will help people without linux-bootable CDROM's or similar devices. It would be usefull for others, too, because floppy-boot is very simple and convenient.
Best regards Jonas Mockus
There is sbm - smart boot manager (I think debian ships with it) which is able to boot from CD. For me it always worked, but I have not tryed it with FC2t3. Check http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/, it uses about 30Kbytes from the floppy. If this works, I see no need to have boot floppy with anything else on it.