Howdy, I hate to bother everyone with something so simple, but I've beat my head bloody on this one. I have a new machine with an MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard (ATI Xpress200 chipset) and a Hammer DVD Writer (shows up as a Matshita DVD-RAM SW-9585). Anyway, I downloaded the CentOS 4.3 iso's and burned them to CD. When I boot the new machine it says: Boot CD: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER I've _never_ seen this error message before. I know this is a RTFM kind of question, but I don't have any idea right now. Any ideas? TIA! Jeff
Make sure you used the "Burn CD Image" option in your cd burning software. If you did just a regular cd burn, like if you were simply copying data files from your hard drive, then you didn't creat the cd's correctly. There's always the chance unfortunately, that the image file for cd 1 could be corrupt. First try putting the cd in a machine that's already up and running. It can even be a windows based machine. Open the cd drive up through "My Computer", If it shows a file named CentOS 1of4bin.iso(That file name isn't exact, but it's close.), then you didn't use the "Burn CD Image" option. Hope this helps. Jim -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On Behalf Of Jeffrey B. Layton Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 6:41 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Installing 4.3 from CD Howdy, I hate to bother everyone with something so simple, but I've beat my head bloody on this one. I have a new machine with an MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard (ATI Xpress200 chipset) and a Hammer DVD Writer (shows up as a Matshita DVD-RAM SW-9585). Anyway, I downloaded the CentOS 4.3 iso's and burned them to CD. When I boot the new machine it says: Boot CD: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER I've _never_ seen this error message before. I know this is a RTFM kind of question, but I don't have any idea right now. Any ideas? TIA! Jeff _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.7.2/349 - Release Date: 5/26/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.7.2/349 - Release Date: 5/26/2006
Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:> Boot CD: > DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER > > > I've _never_ seen this error message before. I know this is a RTFM > kind of question, but I don't have any idea right now. Any ideas? > > TIA! > > JeffI don't want to insult you by asking this question, but I need to ask: You did burn the ISO as an image and not as a file, right? That is, if you load the CD into another machine and look you see installation files and not a single file called cent****.iso, right? Barry
> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey B. Layton > Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 6:41 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] Installing 4.3 from CD > > Howdy, > > I hate to bother everyone with something so simple, but > I've beat my head bloody on this one. I have a new machine > with an MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard (ATI Xpress200 chipset) > and a Hammer DVD Writer (shows up as a Matshita DVD-RAM SW-9585). > Anyway, I downloaded the CentOS 4.3 iso's and burned them to > CD. When I boot the new machine it says: > > Boot CD: > DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER > > > I've _never_ seen this error message before. I know this is a > RTFM kind of question, but I don't have any idea right now. Any ideas? > > TIA! > > Jeff > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >I would also make sure that your BIOS is set to boot from the CDROM. Mike