Just a thought.
Reset bios to default and press the key to get to boot menu on startup and see if that will work
I had a big problem with a USB flash drive and I had to reset the bios and reboot.
Also I could not get the DVD install disk to work.
Only the fedora 14 live cd would work then I just installed it to hard drive
Michael
From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vincent Li
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 15:33
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: Re: Trying to install Fedora 14 on a Stubborn Sony Vaio
Just want to double confirm that have you set the USB CDROM for the first boot device?
If yes, please verify whether the boot cd is corrupt? Or you could use another CD for testing.
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:52 AM, Jim <binarynut@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 02/21/2011 02:33 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> --- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jim<binarynut@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> A Sony Vaio will not let me boot on
>> cdrom with a Crashed Windows OS,
>> trying to install Fedora only on laptop. Even if I
>> have BIOS set to
>> boot off Cdrom.
>>
>> I even hooked a external cdrom to usb and enabled in Bios
>> to be first
>> boot device, won't work, in all cases it will
>> only Attempt to Load
>> Windows.
>>
>> It won't even let you disable hard drive in Boot process.
> This may be a stupid question, but have you checked the ORDER of the chosen boot devices in BIOS? If the hard drive is first in the boot chain, even if the CDROM drive is set as bootable, BIOS will stll go to the hard drive first to boot the system regardless of a bootable CD being in the CDROM drive.
>
> B
Done that, cdrom is first boot device, and hard drive is second boot device.
I think this is a Vista install and Sony has the laptop bootup setup to
bootup on a path to Windows on hard drive. and ignores the cdrom.
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Thanks&Regards
Vincent Li (李锐聪)
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