Cannot boot from Hoary CD

Luke Venediger lukev123 at gmail.com
Thu May 5 07:40:38 UTC 2005


On 5/5/05, postmast3r <postmast3r at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 5/4/05, Luke Venediger <lukev123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to install Ubuntu Hoary on my Gran's computer (she is 75!) I
> > believe it'll be easier for her to use and for me to remotely support.
> >
> > My problem is that I cannot boot from the Hoary CD. The machine is a
> > Pentium 1, 133mhz, and I have set CDROM to boot first in the bios. When 
> the
> > machine starts up I get the foloowing message:
> >
> > Boot from ATAPI CDROM:
> > 1 fd system type - (00)
> >
> > And then Windows 95 proceeds to boot up (which is currently installed on
> > the harddrive). I've thought about making boot disks, but I think the 
> stiffy
> > drive has seen better days (about 5 years ago).
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Did you burn Hoary to a CDRW or a CDR? Some older machines have cdrom
> drives that can't read CDRWs but can read CDRs.
> 
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I burnt the ISO to a CDR, and the CD-ROM has been replaced. If I boot up 
into Windows I can browse the CD in windows explorer.

Thanks,
Luke.

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