Enter nothing at the boot prompt. That prompt is for special cases
such as if you have a sucky SCSI card like the Adaptec AIC-6360
and you need it to see more than one gig on your hard drive.
brian
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 08:21:08AM -0700, "JP" == Jason Painter wrote:
JP> I have a machine that I am trying to load Red Hat 6.0 on. I am having
JP> trouble recognizing the CD-ROM to get the installation going. I have
JP> an IDE CD-ROM as master on the second channel which means HDC.
JP>
JP> Boot: linux hdc=cdrom
JP>
JP> That's what I enter at the boot prompt. I get into the installation
JP> menu, it asks where do I want to install from, I say cd-rom. It pauses,
JP> then comes back and says no medium found. Any suggestions?
JP>
JP> P.S., yes the CD-ROM is in the drive, I have triple checked.
JP>
JP> Thanks for any help you can offer.
JP>
JP> Jason Painter
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