Ill be trying all the methods. Thanks for your time --- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> escribió: > David Klose wrote: > > Yes, i have one cdrw drive and this dvdrw drive. > > The cd drive is set as primary slave, while the > dvd is > > set as secondary master. > > Than the problem is with your BIOS (basically, this > means you will not > be able to boot anything from your DVD), and > solution is dependent on > the type of BIOS you have in your PC. > > Some things to try. Note that these are only hints, > every BIOS is > different. Your BIOS might support some of this > features/tricks, or it > might not support any of them. In later case, the > only way to go would > be to rewire your PC (swap CD/RW drive and DVD/RW > drive, or temporarely > remove CD/RW drive). Well, there's one more trick > in this case that > should work, at the very end of this email. > > Some BIOSes will scan all CD-ROM/DVD devices and > boot from first that > contains bootable CD (if any). Obviously, your BIOS > is not doing this. > > On some BIOSes, it is possible to specify which > CD-ROM/DVD to use for > booting (go to boot options, select line that says > 'CD-ROM' or something > similar, press enter, you get the list of CD-ROM/DVD > devices, select > your DVD). > > On some BIOSes, if you press 'ESC' key during memory > test (to abort > memory tests), you will be prompted with list of all > potentially > bootable devices (you should see at least floppy, > all disk drives, and > all CD-ROM/DVD drives on this list), and you will be > able to choose from > wich to boot (simply select your DVD from the list). > You might need to > disable "fast boot", "skip POST" or any similar > option in BIOS to make > it do memory test that will last long enough for you > to have time to > press ESC (sometimes with those options enabled, > BIOS doesn't perform > memory test, or it is so fast that you don't have > time to press ESC). > > If none of the above tricks work with your BIOS > (meaning it is able to > boot only from first CD/DVD drive it finds), I'm > affraid rewiring is > (almost) the only option. Almost, because there's > one more trick you > can try. If you don't want to rewire, you might try > downloading Rescue > CD (80MB or so ISO image) and burning it to CD. > Place it in your CD-ROM > drive. Place install DVD into DVD drive. Boot from > Rescue CD. On > first boot prompt (as soon as CD is booted and you > get Fedora splash > screen) type "linux askmethod". Boot loader will > load Linux kernel and > start Anaconda installer (just the same as if you > booted from install > DVD). At one point during install it will ask you > from where do you > want to install (the "askmethod" option). Choose > your DVD drive. > > -- > Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> > Pollard Banknote Limited > Systems Administrator 1499 > Buffalo Place > Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 > Winnipeg, MB R3T 1L7 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar
