On Monday 12 August 2002 22:19, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 20:12, Amir Tal wrote:
> > toshiba tecra 8000 laptop, tech specepications are here :
> > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/pc/B000068CT7/tech-d
> >ata/ref=pc_de_a_smtd/103-3271279-5675812
> >
> > an reason why RH 7.3, 7.2, 7.1, and 6.2 install cd's wont boot there ?
> > mandrake 8.0-8.2 seems to work.
>
> El Torito (the bootable CD standart) is a maze of twisty little
> passages, all broken.
>
> Can you write exactly what happens when you try to boot - e.g. where
> exactly does it stop? 

CD spins for 3-4 sec's, and then windows load.
now i did an fdisk and deleted everything, so i get an ugly message saying 
"operating system is not found"... you get the idea..

some points to consider :

1) those Cd's boot in other machines, so this is not a media problem.
2) mandrake and gentoo Cd's are booting in this machine, so this is not a 
hardware problem.

3) WTF ?!?!


>does the BIOS recognise there is a CD and try to
> boot it but something fails afterwards or does the BIOS bnever attempts
> to boot the CD? is the media original or burned in both cases and have
> you tried to burn another copy? can you check which file system the
> images hold - ISO9660,

ISO9660


 ISO9660 with Rock Ridge extentions, Juliet, some
> other variant thereof?
>
> Try to supply as many details as possbile, maybe we'll find a hack.
>
> Gilad.
>
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