On Friday 21 March 2003 10:15 am, Bob Miller wrote:
: Master O Planets wrote:
: > I note that the RH 8.0 boot loader Grub interferes with the boot of
: > Koppix 3.1.
: >
: > Hardware boot order is floppy, CD, IDE. Failure on three dual boot
: > machines.
: >
: > Stopping Grub and pressing TAB gives a list of possible commands, but
: > which one, (is it the red wire or the blue wire.)
:
: I am skeptical. Grub should never get control if there is a bootable
: CD in the drive. Are you sure the CD is seated correctly? CD drive
: hooked up? BIOS settings as you described? Right CD? No floppy?
:
: One of the hardware experts here may know more than I.
Grub(or lilo) should work fine for booting any/all os's. If the machine in
question were in front of me, Im confident that I could make it work as
advertised, however its difficult to say what the issue is from here. I would
suggest looking into your grub config, and where you have placed your boot
loader (id suggest the MBR rather than the root partition).
If your cdrom is bootable, the cd is bootable (note: some cd's wont boot in
some computers, while other cds will boot... im uncertain why, but I know on
several machines I have slackware 8.1 cds wont boot).
Things to check:
Your bios! make sure you have the boot order CDROM C A
Make sure your CDROM supports boot up
Make sure your Motherboard supports cdrom boot
Make sure your cd is bootable.
If your uncertain of any components swap them out with known working
components.
Jamie
--
How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I
only coded it.
-- Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting
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