Configgin the BIOS to boot from ATAPI CD.

[paulb]

I need help. I can no longer use anything graphical in Linux because it screwed up, so I want to reinstall RH 7.1. I used rawrite to write boot.img to A:\, checked that it worked, and then popped the floppy into my Linux box. A screen comes up telling me that if I want to install Linux to press enter.

I press enter, and it starts to load.
Then it gives me this message:

boot failed: please change disk and try again.

Any ideas? It is boot.img I need, right?


Edit: Previous topic name: RH 7.1 Reinstall problems

[ 13 November 2001: Message edited by: paulb ]

[twen]

Sounds like a dud floppy disk
try a different disk
if that dosn't work download a newer version of rawrite.
with debian it is possible to use a windows boot disk to give you cdrom support and run bootlin or whatever its called on the cd to start the installation. mayby its possible with RH7 too.

[paulb]

Thanks twen. Ill re-rawrite it with boot.img. Ill keep you posted.

[sixfeetsix]

I find the best way to install an OS these days is to modify temporally the settings in the BIOS to run first the cdrom, of course you need a cd drive who is ATAPI... then you don't need any startup disk...

[paulb]

Originally posted by sixfeetsix:
<STRONG>I find the best way to install an OS these days is to modify temporally the settings in the BIOS to run first the cdrom, of course you need a cd drive who is ATAPI... then you don't need any startup disk...</STRONG>

How do I do that?
I am pretty sure my CD-Rom drive is ATAPI.

[sixfeetsix]

Make sure your OS cd is in the drive.

Usually, you enter the BIOS at startup by holding down the delete key right after the first startup screen has appeared, wich is usually the one that shows the specifications of your video card.

Then, it depends of your BIOS, but there should be an option there to choose which device the computer should try to boot first. Make the change so it is the cdrom (you can note what you are changing if you are not use to it) and find your way out of the BIOS while saving changes.

If that works, at the end of the installation, reverse the changes you made to the BIOS, so it's like before.

[paulb]

I set the value to somthing like
D/A/SCSI.
I got this message:

Conflicting IO ports: 2F8

Then I tried CDROM/C/A
I got the same message.

[paulb]

nevermind i figered it out thanx soo much.

[sixfeetsix]

Be more specific

1.What's the name of the section in which you are changing settings?

2.What's the name of the setting you are changing?

3.What are the different options for that setting?

4.Does your computer still start after showing you the message "Conflicting..."?

5.What is the model of your motherboard?

[Ch2i5]

yeah, I'll just try and help out, I have an Award Bios, and all I do is goto the bios and goto the 2nd menu from the top, then theres a selection called "boot Sequence" and I switch it to CDROM-C-A when I ahve to, but I leave it at a-c for regular use.

[paulb]

Ch2i5: Thats the same bios I have. Works now though.