Re: [tlug] Making new boot image for RH cd...

[roy lo <roylo@example.com>]

I went to the Linux on Laptop webpage and looked up the information for 
you laptop. on one of the web page
http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/portege3440CT/
it says

"according to Toshiba, the BIOS is not capable of booting the 2.88MB 
boot image on the first CD."

I guess you were right, the bios did limited the boot image.


"Starting with SuSE Linux 7.2, the installation floppies do also include 
the necessary USB drivers to talk to USB storage devices like the floppy 
drive or a CD-ROM drive. For SuSE Linux 7.1, I had to create a special 
boot floppy, that included the necessary network driver on the same 
disk, because you could not load additional drivers from another floppy 
disk - linuxrc could not access the USB floppy drive after the kernel 
had booted."

So, that might be a good ideal as well.

you can take a look of that page 
(http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/portege3440CT/)

and maybe find it use for to your problem



later


Mancy, Raymond wrote:
> I am using a Toshiba portege 3440ct....funny thing is, is that I am sure I
> have gotten it to load the disc before (thats how I originally got RH on
> it), for some reason it wont boot anymore though. its not the disc which is
> at fault, and its not the computer either (well...it could be the bios as
> other ppl have said the same to me about loading RH on a toshiba) but it
> will boot other disc's...i.e windows disc's.
> 
> It looks as if my computer all of a sudden decided it didnt like linux
> anymore...and wont let me load it.
> 
> Ray
> 
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> Mancy, Raymond wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>> 
>> 
>>I figured out why my toshiba laptop cannot boot RH CD's....I hear that it
>>
> is
> 
>>because the image is 2.88mb...too big for the bios apparently.
>>
>>
> really? I had/have 3 toshiba laptops and never have problems with them. 
> can you tell me what model do you have?
> Also, I don't think bios size has much to do with loading boot images. 
> It ought to be independent of each other.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>Is it possible to somehow change the boot image for the redhat CD? Do you
>>think it would be possible to throw the boot.img,the one used to boot from
>>floppy, into the iso image and have it boot succesfully ?
>>
> yes
> 
> 
>> 
>>Cheers
>>Ray
>>
>>
>>
> 
>