Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 920

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If you keep
troubleshooting purposes, insert the line
verbose 1
in syslinux.cfg for the boot loader to display which action is currently being per-
formed.
If the machine does not boot from the floppy disk, you may need to change the boot
sequence in the BIOS to A,C,CDROM.
External Boot Devices
Most CD-ROM drives are supported. If problems arise when booting from the CD-
ROM drive, try booting CD 2 of the CD set.
If the system does not have a CD-ROM or floppy disk, it is still possible that an external
CD-ROM, connected with USB, FireWire, or SCSI, can be used to boot the system.
This depends largely on the interaction of the BIOS and the hardware used. Sometimes
a BIOS update may help if you encounter problems.
52.2.2 Booting from Installation Media Fails
There are two possible reasons for a machine not to boot for installation:
CD or DVD-ROM Drive Unable to Read the Boot Image
Your CD-ROM drive might not be able to read the boot image on CD 1. In this
case, use CD 2 to boot the system. CD 2 contains a conventional 2.88 MB boot
image that can be read even by unsupported drives and allows you to perform the
installation over the network as described in
(page 69).
920 Installation and Administration
The program checks if the BIOS provides VESA 2.0–compliant framebuffer
support and boots the kernel accordingly.
The monitor data (DDC info) is read.
The first block of the first hard disk (MBR) is read to map BIOS IDs to Linux
device names during the boot loader configuration. The program attempts to
read the block by means of the the lba32 functions of the BIOS to determine if
the BIOS supports these functions.
pressed when SYSLINUX starts, all these steps are skipped. For
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