On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Duane Attaway wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Mark Hutchings wrote:
>
> > I have a client that needs Red Hat 7.3 installed onto his laptop. Toshiba

I forgot to mention that other non-redhat distributions don't have a
problem booting from these toshiba drives.  Apparently redhat's boot image
is too large for the bios to handle, while mandrake doesn't have a
problem:

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From: Mike "reverse the letters" S. (retsuhcs@xinap.moc)
Subject: Re: Toshiba Laptop. Cant boot on CD-ROM
Newsgroups: linux.dev.laptop, comp.sys.laptops, linux.redhat.install,

This is a limitation in the Toshiba BIOS which they do not see as a
problem, apparently.

The Intel Boot Agent code in the Toshiba BIOS supports non-emulated CD
boots (like the Windows XP installation CD) properly. However, in
emulation mode, it only supports the loading of 1.44 MB floppy disk
images. Some commercial software use larger images - for instance, all of
the Symantec bootable discs like Norton AntiVirus. The Intel Boot Agent
sees this as an illegal media size, rejects it, and sends the boot process
to the next bootable device in your setup.

I mentioned this on Toshiba's support forum and was essentially told
'tough, this is Symantec's problem, why can't they do it like everybody
else'. However, I was told my suggestion would go to the engineers.

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