Fedora C2 T2 won't cd install

[yclyde]

This is getting very frustrating. I cannot get fedora c2 t2 to install from cd.
md5-check; boot from cd-check; fedora cd1- check; iso burnt properly (alcohol & nero)-check;

can't get the install to start-check!

Cannot figure out wth is wrong.

As an afterthought, remember reading somewhere, someone with the same problem relettered their optical drive to "d" to get it to work; I'm on F(liteon dvd/cdrw) & G(liteon cdrw). I don't know if that makes any sense.

Suggestions?

[samwichse]

How is the install not starting? Is it just sitting at a blank screen, or passing on to windows, or "no operating system found" or what?

[yclyde]

Message is always "disk boot failure".

I think I've narrowed the problem to either the drive letter or the sw-ide drivers from nvidia.

Boots fine on another system..Grrrrrrrrrrr!

Weird thing is that mandrake & libranet will install fine(from cd boot) with my current setup. Fedora won't!

[yclyde]

Thats it; I'm done. Tried everything I can think of.

A7N8X-D
xp3200
2x512 @3500
ti4200
80g max, liteon dvd/cdrw, liteon cdrw

Rolled ide drivers back to windows 2.70 box = 0
put in a new drive to boot from = 0
loaded setup defaults = 0

This box just says no to fedora.

[samwichse]

Hmm, well your windows ide drivers should make no difference, since at boot it is before any device drivers like that have even loaded. The only thing I can think of is that you have a bad CD ROM drive or that you need to disable DMA for the CD ROM (use PIO mode or something).

Sam

[yclyde]

The previous nvidia ata controller driver (2.44) release was the source of drive problems for many people. However, the latest release (2.5) has behaved quite well.

I tried your suggestion of running pio but that also didn't work.
Also tried a different drive w/no-go.

Thanks for the suggestions Sam.

I'll slide another box in and give fedora a go.

[Mead]

I read about other people having a problem booting from the test 2 install disc, one work around that was working for some people, was booting from fedora core 1 install cd then at the media check inserting the test2 disc and continuing from there.

[yclyde]

Never could get it to go on main comp. However, installed nicely on another box alongside w2k & mandrake. Still have no idea what the bug was.

Mixed bag review so far. Some good things; some broken. I'll stick it out for a while.
From my (noob) experience, libranet has really been the slickest to work with so far. Useful, easy to configure, mantain, & update.

Just preparing for the day to quit using windows as my primary os.