Re: CD not bootable
Hi:
normally I boot my Toshiba Satellite with a Windows Startup Disk with CD-ROM
support.
After it loads, I run the boot.bat inside Install directory on the Debian CD
and that's it.
Good luck
Pedro
----- Original Message -----
From: Visvanath Ratnaweera <ratnaweera@dplanet.ch>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 1:07 PM
Subject: CD not bootable
> Hi all
>
> This must be a pretty standard question but I couldn'f find what I need.
>
> I have the Debian 2.2 (Potato) CD's which were the source of quite a few
> installation. In all those I could boot from the CD.
>
> The present candidate, a Toshiba Satellite Laptop with Pentium 266 MMX,
> refuses to boot from the CD. I made a rescue floppy from DOS usring
rawrite2
> which boots fine.
>
> This is the quesiton: How do I install by making a minimum number of
floppies?
>
> Ideally this rescue CD should be suffiecient. The kernel in the rescue
floppy
> recognizes the CD. Can I give something like "linux root=...." so that the
CD
> will take control?
>
> Cheers
> Visvanath.
>
>
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