Linux will not boot to the cd-rom drive 1

[celeron895]

Trying to install redhat 7. Cannot get it to boot to my cd-rom drive. The drive and disk are fine (I think) because I can see the files on the disk. I changed the boot sequence in the bios but windows still boots. I do not have a floppy disk to install from that. What can I do?

 

[ifincham]

Hi,



If you can't get the bios to boot from CD to do the install then you have to use one of the alternative methods - the obvious one is to make a boot floppy. The CD has the files you need and the instrcutions are here -->

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/...-steps-install-cdrom.html#S2-STEPS-MAKE-DISKS

If you have a problem you can always download the same files :



ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386/dosutils/rawrite.exe



then run the 'rawrite' and specify the file as 'boot.img'.



Once its done you just boot from the floppy you made..



Hope this helps

 

[coper]

hello,

My problem: I have a pc with win98 installed. I put the redhat cd in and changed bios to boot from cd-rom first.

It boots system right back into win98? It does not seem to find an install file on the cd1. I can see the files on the cd from win explorer.
How can I install or can I install from dos command line. The cd is rh7.1?

Any suggestions.

 

[coper]

forgot to mention I get this error first and then it boots into windows.

Boot ATAPI CD-ROM: Failure ...

 

[coper]

Ooops..

Please disregard problem. I mis-labled cd's when I burned them. everythings fine

bye