[TriLUG] Unable to boot RH9 linux after installation

[Adalita Brown]

Everyone,

Thank you for all your technical tips.  I'm happy to inform everyone that my CD-ROM drive is now bootable :-)  I was so inspired to check out more about the BIOS setup last night and found the following steps:

1. Power up the system
2. Press Fn+F3 to enter BIOS Setup screen 
3. Highlight "Primary Slave", 
4. Change the type to [Auto] 
5. Return back to Setup screen, 
6. Down arrow move highlight to "Boot Device Priority",
7. Move [ATAPI CD-ROM Drive] from priority 4 to priority 1
8. Return back to Setup screen by pressing ESC,
9. Exit saving Changes. Reboot the system

I hope this tip will help anyone with a Compaq Armada 6500 laptop.  In fact, I am about to complete my website and will put this tip online as well :-)  Thanks again y'all.

-adalita



-----Original Message-----
From: Adalita Brown <adalita at earthlink.net>
Sent: Sep 24, 2003 10:56 AM
To: Joseph Tate <jtate at dragonstrider.com>, trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Unable to boot RH9 linux after installation

Hi Joseph,

I will give that a shot and I will let you know later tonight. Thanks for the tip :-)

-adalita

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Tate <jtate at dragonstrider.com>
Sent: Sep 24, 2003 10:24 AM
To: Adalita Brown <adalita at earthlink.net>, 
	Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Unable to boot RH9 linux after installation

Adalita Brown wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I'm a newbie and just trying to get my RH9 linux to boot.  Installed RH9 on my laptop via hard drive installation method.  Upon installation, GRUB does not load up.  Only able to boot either W2K or DOS.  Is it possible for me to boot linux from DOS or via BootMagic?  My concern with BootMagic is if enabled it will be configured on the 1st sector of the hard drive where /boot currently resides.
>
>More information:
>1)  I have no floppy drive
>2)  CD-ROM drive is not bootable.  I've tried changing the boot priority in BIOS but to no avail.
>3)  Laptop is Compaq Armada 6500 series
>
>Is there another way around to get into RH9 Linux without altering my existing OS configuration?  Otherwise, I may have to invest a floppy drive for my laptop.  Or, I may go to a local computer shop and rent a floppy drive? I kinda prefer not to spend the money in buying one :-(
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>-adalita
>
>
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>
Compaq's have a special boot menu.  Try hitting scroll lock when the 
bios screen shows up to see if you can see which key combination to 
press to get into it.  It seems like it's F12.

Boot Magick should be able to boot Linux, though I haven't done it 
personally.