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boot linux on an nc6400

joseph pareti — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:38:13 GMT

First, this is not the appropriate forum for the problem at hand, but since I could not identify a more appropriate one, I am going to post here anyway.

I want to boot sles 10 (i386 rc5) cdroms on an nc6400, and invariably the laptop boots (windows) from the HD.

My setup is as follows (F10):

cd-rom boot enable
floppy boot eanble
multi-boot enable

boot order:

usb cd-rom 1st
notebook multibay 2nd
usb floppy 3rd
...
notebook HD 5th

I know the cd is bootable because I booted a blade out of it, but at this stage it should not matter either.

Despite the settings above, when pressing f9 I only see 2 options:

- notebook multibay
- notebook HD

Am I missing anything?

TIA

Re: boot linux on an nc6400

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:41:34 GMT

Shalom,

Probably bad firmware/bios. You will probably want to flash the bios to a newer version and make sure you are building your boot cd properly.

Will it boot another system?

IS the system you are trying to install Linux on Linux certified?

SEP

Re: boot linux on an nc6400

Alan_152 — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:02:57 GMT

Are you using a USB CD or the multi-bay installed CD?

Re: boot linux on an nc6400

joseph pareti — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:47:05 GMT

first of all thanks to all of you for your support.

I have been able to boot (RHEL) linux using ANOTHER cd, meaning that there was something wrong with the sles10 cd, even though I could swear I had installed a c-blade not long ago using the very same one.

The BIOS menu says something like "USB cd drive", however my drive is built in in the laptop. So I don't really know what kind of cd drive I've got.

Anyhow, what I reported so far was just a prestudy, because what I am really after is installing solaris/x86, and since i could not boot the cd's with the downloaded solaris iso's from the sun website, I kind of starting to worry about more basic stuff and reverted to more familiar pastures like linux ...

I agree that solaris is off-topic here, but I do not seem to find support on solving this issue within hp; all I am asking for is a way to download the installation media for solaris 10 / x86 and create a dvd or (set of cd's ) with which I can boot my notebook and start to learn solaris (not out of passion, but rather of necessity :-)

TIA

Re: boot linux on an nc6400

Alan_152 — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:58:27 GMT

Solaris ISOs are available here -- http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp#download