> I had a strange problem installing Dachstein today. The hardware was a Dell > Dimension XPS. The machine would boot from a Windows CD, but for some reason > it would not boot from the Dachstein CD I had created, and tested, on > another Dell. > I created a boot floppy, but that wouldn't recognise the CD either. > In the end I used a Dachstein floppy distribution, but I can't figure out > what was wrong. > > The CD booted OK on another Dell workstation and on my laptop - this would > seem to rule out a duff CD > A Windows CD booted OK on the offending Dell workstation - this would seem > to rule out duff hardware.
There's more than one type of bootable CD, and most windows CD's use a different boot strategy than Dachstein-CD, which uses "floppy emulation" when booting from CD. There could be a BIOS problem (most likely if the system didn't even try to boot off the Dachstein-CD), or a compatibility problem with the particular system (most likely if the system tried to boot the CD, but never fully came up). Since you indicate booting from a floppy image still didn't get the CD recognized, there's probably a compatibility problem with the existing Dachstein CD and your system. Remember that as packaged, Dachstein CD will only talk to IDE CD-ROM drives. If you've got a SCSI drive, or one of the older proprietary interface CD-ROMs, you'll need to edit root.lrp on the boot-floppy to load proper drivers before you can see the CD. Once you get a floppy booting and recognizing the CD, you can burn a new CD-ROM using the updated disk as a boot floppy image, and boot directly from the CD for speed... Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
