I can't seem to get my system to boot from the FC3 RC5 x86_64 DVD. The MD5SUM checks out out fine. Is this a known issue? Any way to boot from the DVD or is this 2.5G wasted?
Nb this is on a new EM64T system. Booting from the FC2 i386 DVD is not a problem.
Jurgen
Jurgen Kramer wrote:
I can't seem to get my system to boot from the FC3 RC5 x86_64 DVD. The MD5SUM checks out out fine. Is this a known issue? Any way to boot from the DVD or is this 2.5G wasted?
Nb this is on a new EM64T system. Booting from the FC2 i386 DVD is not a problem.
Jurgen
Did you set your BIOS to boot from the DVD device first?
If yes, and you verified this is so, please give more specific information. What motherboard and chipset? What CPU?
Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland
On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 18:32 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
Jurgen Kramer wrote:
I can't seem to get my system to boot from the FC3 RC5 x86_64 DVD. The MD5SUM checks out out fine. Is this a known issue? Any way to boot from the DVD or is this 2.5G wasted?
Nb this is on a new EM64T system. Booting from the FC2 i386 DVD is not a problem.
Jurgen
Did you set your BIOS to boot from the DVD device first?
Yes I did. It boots just fine from the boot.iso burned to a CDR but it will not boot from the DVD directly.
If yes, and you verified this is so, please give more specific information. What motherboard and chipset? What CPU?
Motherboard: Asus NCT-D with BIOS v1.05 (latest) Chipset: Intel E7525/6300ESB CPU: Dual 2.8GHz nocona Xeon EM64T (stepping EO) Mem: 1G DD2 reg. ECC
Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland
I think I found a way around the problem. If I point the installer from the boot.iso to a NFS drive where the original DVD iso resides it will start the installer. Really cool feature..
So although DVD booting doesn't work I think I will be able to install FC3 on my x86_64.
Thanks,
Jurgen
Motherboard: Asus NCT-D with BIOS v1.05 (latest)
Chipset: Intel E7525/6300ESB CPU: Dual 2.8GHz nocona Xeon EM64T (stepping EO) Mem: 1G DD2 reg. ECC
Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland
I think I found a way around the problem. If I point the installer from the boot.iso to a NFS drive where the original DVD iso resides it will start the installer. Really cool feature..
So although DVD booting doesn't work I think I will be able to install FC3 on my x86_64.
Good luck! I have no expertise with dual CPUs. I'm sure others in this forum do. I'll have to experiment with them soon because they will probably be the next big thing in terms of eking more clock speed performance out of CPUs.
Bob