On Saturday 02 December 2006 14:54, jim tate wrote: > John Aldrich wrote: > > On Saturday 02 December 2006 8:04 am, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I was able to use a Fedora Core 6 DVD disk that I created and load > >> it into a Windows laptop that belongs to a friend and found that it > >> boots fine into Linux. The problem sees to be with my own laptop. I > >> already have Fedora Core 6 loaded on it. The laptop is an IBM ThinkPad > >> T-30. I have an NEC-CD-RW/DVD+RW Drive which I bought recently for this > >> laptop. However, whenever I put the disk into my drive to boot from it, > >> it only boots to the hard drive. Would this have anything to do with > >> Anaconda? I already have changed the bios settings that would allow the > >> laptop to boot from the cd-drive. Has anyone else had this problem and > >> if so, how do I correct it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > I have a similar problem with my Athlon 1100 home-built machine. It just > > refuses to boot to DVD, although it'll boot to CD just fine. I know that > > on the KUBuntu DVD, there's a boot image you can put on a floppy and boot > > from the floppy to then boot a DVD. I'm guessing that would work with > > Fedora as well. > > John > > If you got a good bootable disk and it won't off DVD that has to do with > your computers BIOS, check > BIOS setup. > I also have a laptop that will boot off CDs but not DVDs - probably due to the age of the laptop and its bios - although it can read DVDs. Anne
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