On Monday 03 May 2004 13:59, jonas2(a)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.
--
Regards,
Doncho N. Gunchev Registered Linux User #291323 at
counter.li.org
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