Re: Booting RH7.1 CDs

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>Has anyone had any trouble booting from a RH7.1 CD? 
>No.
>I've done four upgrades and a couple installs from scratch.
>I booted from CD on ALL of these.
>>My Netfinity (5000, 4000R, 550) servers boot happily from a
>>6.2 or 7.0 CD,  but just ignore my 7.1 CD.  I've made sure
>>the BIOS is at the latest rev, etc....
>I had trouble on a newer IBM intellistation.  It booted from CD
>fine, but the install locked up in the first couple screens of
>the install.  I was only playing with it, so I didn't pursue
>the problem.

Mine doesn't even start the boot loader. :{

>I remember reading something about 2.4 kernels not working
>correctly on Netfinity's.  Seems like that was discussed on
>the GRLUG list awhile back.  I don't remember the details.

Yep, IBM has made some noise about this too, but they say 7.1 works.  Oh well,
so long as I have NFSv3 I don't much care as the 4000Rs are uniprocessor boxes. 
But I'll check out the GRLUG thread.

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