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tereglow

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May 23rd, 2007 16:00

PowerEdge 2550 CD Boot

Hello,
 
I am trying to install CentOS 5 on a Dell PowerEdge 2550 server.  I have burned the distrubution to an ISO image and tested that image on another server.  However, when I try to boot off the CD on the 2550, it never finds it and fails looking for a boot device.  I have verified that the "CDROM" selection is first in the boot order in the BIOS.
 
Does anyone know if there is a solution to this?  The newer CentOS boot images are too big to fit on a floppy drive and I don't imagine I could boot off of a USB key on this system.
 
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Tom

L3_servertech

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May 31st, 2007 17:00

Maybe the cdrom is bad, cable is loose, etc.  Have you confirmed you can boot to another bootable CDROM?   I know that platform is El Torito spec so it will boot to something if it's 1st boot order. 
 
If it boots to a windows or linux CD....then it's the image and I have no idea how to help with CentOS since I have zero experience with it.

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