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[ale] Booting From DVDROM
- Subject: [ale] Booting From DVDROM
- From: danscox at mindspring.com (Danny Cox)
- Date: Fri Sep 10 20:18:24 2004
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <1094849122.1823.16.camel@pip> <[email protected]>
Geoffrey,
On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 16:49, Geoffrey wrote:
> > It refuses to boot from a CD! I won't go into everything I've tried,
> > but I've done lots, including a different plain CDROM drive (do you know
> > how scarce a plain vanilla CDROM drive is nowadays? ;-).
> Do you see the cdrom drive led light as if it's attempting to access the
When it's first detected (prior to displaying the drive IDs), yes. Not
when it's attempting to boot.
> drive? Are you trying to boot from a known good cd?
It's a CD I burned, and another computer boots from it just fine.
--
kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.
Danny