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David Klose wrote:
| 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 | In most cases there is no need in rewiring/disconnecting anything. Could you just give me your motherboard name/manufacturer? You can send it to my personal e-mail, as the problem, actually does not have anything to do with FC. Regards, Maxim. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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