Hi,
I have FC5 and I'd like to upgrade. I have downloaded the FC8 and made
a DVD. When I reboot my laptop to start installation, it cannot
recognize the FC8 DVD and fails to start with that so in contiunes
with the old OS that I had. What' s wrong? is it related to FC8 or my
computer?

Reza

On 23 Jan, 20:15, bakhtiari.r...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I have FC5 and I'd like to upgrade. I have downloaded the FC8 and made
> a DVD. When I reboot my laptop to start installation, it cannot
> recognize the FC8 DVD and fails to start with that so in contiunes
> with the old OS that I had. What' s wrong? is it related to FC8 or my
> computer?
>
> Reza

Maybe there is something wrong with you DVD or you image file.What is
the output message when you failed.

On Jan 23, 2:30 pm, fetag <cas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 Jan, 20:15, bakhtiari.r...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have FC5 and I'd like to upgrade. I have downloaded the FC8 and made
> > a DVD. When I reboot my laptop to start installation, it cannot
> > recognize the FC8 DVD and fails to start with that so in contiunes
> > with the old OS that I had. What' s wrong? is it related to FC8 or my
> > computer?
>
> > Reza
>
> Maybe there is something wrong with you DVD or you image file.What is
> the output message when you failed.


Actually it doesnt give any message. It says just ''boot from optical
drive...'' (as it's supposed) and then after few seconds goes to the
original dual boot manager which I could choos between Windows or
Linux. so in somehow, it simply ignors DVD !

On 23 Jan, 21:35, bakhtiari.r...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2:30 pm, fetag <cas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 23 Jan, 20:15, bakhtiari.r...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
> > > I have FC5 and I'd like to upgrade. I have downloaded the FC8 and made
> > > a DVD. When I reboot my laptop to start installation, it cannot
> > > recognize the FC8 DVD and fails to start with that so in contiunes
> > > with the old OS that I had. What' s wrong? is it related to FC8 or my
> > > computer?
>
> > > Reza
>
> > Maybe there is something wrong with you DVD or you image file.What is
> > the output message when you failed.
>
> Actually it doesnt give any message. It says just ''boot from optical
> drive...'' (as it's supposed) and then after few seconds goes to the
> original dual boot manager which I could choos between Windows or
> Linux. so in somehow, it simply ignors DVD !

oh, I see. I think you DVD is OK. you should set the BIOS, choose
first boot from cd

On Jan 23, 3:59 pm, fetag <cas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 Jan, 21:35, bakhtiari.r...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Jan 23, 2:30 pm, fetag <cas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > On 23 Jan, 20:15, bakhtiari.r...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I have FC5 and I'd like to upgrade. I have downloaded the FC8 and made
> > > > a DVD. When I reboot my laptop to start installation, it cannot
> > > > recognize the FC8 DVD and fails to start with that so in contiunes
> > > > with the old OS that I had. What' s wrong? is it related to FC8 or my
> > > > computer?
>
> > > > Reza
>
> > > Maybe there is something wrong with you DVD or you image file.What is
> > > the output message when you failed.
>
> > Actually it doesnt give any message. It says just ''boot from optical
> > drive...'' (as it's supposed) and then after few seconds goes to the
> > original dual boot manager which I could choos between Windows or
> > Linux. so in somehow, it simply ignors DVD !
>
> oh, I see. I think you DVD is OK. you should set the BIOS, choose
> first boot from cd


I tried that one also but the same situation. I think it might related
to type of processor, i.e I had to get the x86 instead
of the other one because I have acer with Centrino. I did this and I
hoped it goes through smoothly but unfortunately
the same again !! any other idea?

(bakhtiari.reza@gmail.com) writes:
> On Jan 23, 3:59 pm, fetag <cas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 23 Jan, 21:35, bakhtiari.r...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Jan 23, 2:30 pm, fetag <cas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > On 23 Jan, 20:15, bakhtiari.r...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> > > > Hi,
>> > > > I have FC5 and I'd like to upgrade. I have downloaded the FC8 and made
>> > > > a DVD. When I reboot my laptop to start installation, it cannot
>> > > > recognize the FC8 DVD and fails to start with that so in contiunes
>> > > > with the old OS that I had. What' s wrong? is it related to FC8 or my
>> > > > computer?
>>
>> > > > Reza
>>
>> > > Maybe there is something wrong with you DVD or you image file.What is
>> > > the output message when you failed.
>>
>> > Actually it doesnt give any message. It says just ''boot from optical
>> > drive...'' (as it's supposed) and then after few seconds goes to the
>> > original dual boot manager which I could choos between Windows or
>> > Linux. so in somehow, it simply ignors DVD !
>>
>> oh, I see. I think you DVD is OK. you should set the BIOS, choose
>> first boot from cd
>
>
> I tried that one also but the same situation. I think it might related
> to type of processor, i.e I had to get the x86 instead
> of the other one because I have acer with Centrino. I did this and I
> hoped it goes through smoothly but unfortunately
> the same again !! any other idea?

First, make sure you can actually mount and read the DVD, just to
make sure it's good in that way.

Are you sure you actually wrote the DVD with the right switches so
it is a bootable DVD?

If the computer is old enough, it may not be able to boot more
recent DVDs. With at least one distribution, it's a common problem
with the latest release on older computers. The issue is that the
BIOS in older computers was expecting a certain format when booting
from CD/DVD and that's been superceded by a slightly different format.

The solution in that case is to boot with a floppy that has the
smartbootmanager on it, and that in tern boots the actual CD/DVD.

Michael

bakhtiari.reza@gmail.com writes:

>Hi,
>I have FC5 and I'd like to upgrade. I have downloaded the FC8 and made
>a DVD. When I reboot my laptop to start installation, it cannot
>recognize the FC8 DVD and fails to start with that so in contiunes
>with the old OS that I had. What' s wrong? is it related to FC8 or my
>computer?

Can your computer boot from DVD? Did you write the iso to the DVD as a file
or as raw? (If you insert the dvd after the system is running, mount the
DVD if need be, say on /mnt/dvd, and do
ls /mnt/dvd, do you see a whole bunch of files and directories of do you
see somethingorothr.iso The latter is wrong.
)


>Reza

>On 24 Jan, 00:52, bakhtiari.r...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Jan 23, 6:04 pm, Unruh <unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > bakhtiari.r...@gmail.com writes:
>> > >Hi,
>> > >I have FC5 and I'd like to upgrade. I have downloaded the FC8 and made
>> > >a DVD. When I reboot my laptop to start installation, it cannot
>> > >recognize the FC8 DVD and fails to start with that so in contiunes
>> > >with the old OS that I had. What' s wrong? is it related to FC8 or my
>> > >computer?
>>
>> > Can your computer boot from DVD? Did you write the iso to the DVD as a file
>> > or as raw? (If you insert the dvd after the system is running, mount the
>> > DVD if need be, say on /mnt/dvd, and do
>> > ls /mnt/dvd, do you see a whole bunch of files and directories of do you
>> > see somethingorothr.iso The latter is wrong.
>> > )
>>
>> > >Reza
>>
>> interesting ! I can see just on dvd THEFULLNAME.iso and NOT the list
>> of all files and directory as you say. I simply download the .iso file
>> and burn it (without anything else as an option etc..).
>>
>> I noticed another thing: when it starts to boot from DVD, gives a
>> message for REALLY less than 1 second: 'gnu loading stage2''. what
>> does it mean? Googling tells me there should be another file to get
>> also. any idea??

OK, that was wrong. I do not know what program you used to burn it, but you
have to tell it to burn it as a raw file, not as a file.
That was grub loading stage 2 probably, and it cannot find stage 2.
Anyway, you have to reburn the dvd as a raw burn.