Fedora 3 Speakup Problem (important!)

[Adam Myrow]

It may not be a problem with the CD as much as the BIOS of some computers.
It would be good to know whether Fedora 3 boots off an emulated floppy or
directly.  Slackware switched from the emulated floppy method to direct
booting around version 8.1, and many found that they could no longer boot
the CD.  I think there is a reason for switching that has to do with getting
more on the CD, but the drawback, as I understand it, is that some computers
can only boot a CD that uses the 2.88MB emulated floppy method.  There is a
program called the smart boot manager which can boot any partition on any
drive.  Slackware makes it available as a floppy image in the rootdisks
directory of newer versions.  I also think it can be built from source, but
that would require a working compiler.  Unfortunately, there is no way that
I'm aware of to make it talk, so its usefulness is limited.  I was able to
get it to work eventually by hitting the down arrow several times after
booting the floppy.  I eventually guessed the correct number of times to hit
it, and it was able to boot a CD.


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of David Bruzos
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 9:32 AM
To: W. Nick Dotson; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Fedora 3 Speakup Problem (important!)

Hello Nick and everyone else:
Yes, there is a problem with the first FC3 cd image.  It boots in some
computers in not in others.  I tried to install FC3 on  my desktop computer
and gave up after hours of trying and not succeeding.  I checked the md5sums
and the CD image is perfect.  I ended up installing
FC3 on my laptop which did boot.  I have 4 computers in my house, two of
them boot and two of them do not.
It is important to say that none of these machines ever had aproblem booting
from any other installation media.  So, there must be a problem with the
first CD.
I made two CD's just incase, but they both act the same way...
If anyone wants to know more about what hardware I am using etc, just let me
know.


Thanx!

David B.
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 09:05:16AM -0600, W. Nick Dotson wrote:
> 
> This I have done.  When I examine the disc in Windows Explorer, I 
> encounter 19 objects on the root, including the ".inf" file, a bunch 
> of "readme"(s), a couple of folders.  However, whereas the 2 discs in 
> the folder, "rescuecd" and "boot.iso" can be booted onto and the
synthesizer brought to life and the first steps through installation media
selection run through, it isn't happening for me with the disc1.
> 
> Nick
> 
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:44:40 -0600, Stephen Clower wrote:
> 
> Hello Nick,
> 
>   Despite the condescention on the list, there's no realy big mystery
>   to burning ISO images with Nero. Instead of specifying a particular
>   image type to burn when you're in the selection dialog, just choose
>   the actual file. Unlike copying straight files, the ISO images have
>   been preconfigured to boot. So, all you need do is select burn
>   image, choose an iso file such as FC*Disk1i386.iso, and then burn it
onto a CD.
> 
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