I followed the suggestion that a number of you gave and booted from cd2 and followed the instuctions. the upgrade from 9.2 to 10 went fine.
Thanks for the help. Jim On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 04:55, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Thursday 25 Mar 2004 10:31, bmobile40 wrote: > > I've been trying to install mandrake10 for about a week now. > > I keep getting a boot failure when I try to boot from cd1. I've > > re-downloaded the iso image from 4 different locations and i still get > > the same error. I've tried boot the machine off of my fedora core 1 cd1, > > and don't have any problems, so I know my cd drive is working. > > Anyone else having this problem. It seems really odd that you'd get > > the same error with an iso downloaded from different locations. > > > > Jim > > What sort of boot failure? > If it does not recognise the disc is bootable, then you should look at how you > are burning the CD. It has to be burned as an iso image. If when you browse > the CD you see only 1 huge file, then it has not been burned correctly. > > If however it barfs a short way into booting saying it cannot see the CD, then > that is a known problem with some CD drives. The solution is to boot from CD2 > and switch back to 1 when prompted. > > derek
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