I'm trying to convert my server at home (just my toy) to windows 2000, and I can't get it to boot from the CD?! It booted from the red hat cd without a problem, now that RH is installed I can't do anything. Its an OEM CD (came with computer, but I formatted to RH but now want w2k back.) with SP1.

Any ideas?

yes clean the cd should work fine assuming the redhat cd booted up just like it should

Originally posted by Snoozy
I'm trying to convert my server at home (just my toy) to windows 2000, and I can't get it to boot from the CD?! It booted from the red hat cd without a problem, now that RH is installed I can't do anything. Its an OEM CD (came with computer, but I formatted to RH but now want w2k back.) with SP1.

Any ideas?
Start by making sure that the CD-ROM drive is the second device in the boot order -- following drive A: -- at the CMOS level.

Restart your machine and wait for memory test to complete. At that point there should be some kind of indication how to enter Setup -- pressing an F key or the Del key or something like that. (If you're running a Compaq machine, you may have to use a setup diskette.)

Press whatever key (or use the Compaq diskette) that gets you into the CMOS Setup area.

Find the screen that has the boot order on it. Make sure the diskette drive is first, then the CD-ROM drive, then the hard drive.

Save changes to CMOS.

Restart the machine with the bootable CD in the CD-ROM drive.

See if it boots from the CD.

If it doesn't, then there's probably an issue with the ID sector of the hard drive. But let's get to that after we see if the above works first.

Let us know what happens.

Originally posted by zdwebhosting
yes clean the cd should work fine assuming the redhat cd booted up just like it should

Or then there's always that. :)

Its a dell power edge 1300, I tried to check the boot order, but couldn't find it, I think its going to harddrive first though. Anyideas?

DOH! The boot sequence was reset and there are multiple "pages" for the BIOS.

Got it, thanks all.

wow :mad:

Keep your ide devices plugged in, you'd be amazed that they'll actually work!