[TriLUG] Unable to boot RH9 linux after installation

David R.Matusiak dave at matusiak.org
Thu Sep 25 10:29:47 EDT 2003


On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 10:23  AM, Adalita Brown wrote:

> 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.

you might also want to submit your specific tips to the Linux on 
Laptops site:

Linux on Laptops - http://www.linux-laptop.net/   
also: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/

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