Failure to boot install-disk from SCSI CD-ROM drive.
John Aspinall
jgaspinall at rcn.com
Thu Jan 9 21:37:35 EST 2003
I'm trying to do a Mandrake 9.0 install from CD. The machine in question is an old Pentium 1 with two disks and a CD-ROM drive, all on its SCSI chain. The SCSI diagnostics check out ok, and the machine will boot Windows without a problem. The CD itself
works to boot on a different machine. I set the CD-ROM drive first in the preferred boot order with the BIOS.
I'm guessing here, but it looks like the boot loader loads ok. But then I get the following:
ISOLINUX 1.76 Mandrake Linux isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it...
isolinux: Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed.
The obvious question: can anyone shed light here?
Thanks in advance,
John Aspinall
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