On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 16:54 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Is the boot order correct? IOW, is the CDROM placed before other > boot devices?
Yes. > If it is, then I suspect you have a hardware problem, which will not > be fixed by putting GRUB on a CDROM. I considered it, but I doubt, because: 1. It's a new notebook, and the drive works perfectly otherwise. 2. If I start up vmware, the virtual machine can boot off the CD-ROM. Which tells me the CD-ROM *can* boot a disc, something else is messing with it. I have a suspicion (this may sound whacky) that it is the memory. I added a gig dimm - corsair valueselect. I had quite a bit of problems with my wireless untill I removed the original 512mb HP dimm. Unfortunately I've sold the 512mb dimm so I can't swap them back to see if that is in fact the problem. The reason why I think this is possible, is because HP was a bit mean with this particular notebook. They locked the BIOS to only accept certain wireless cards. I wanted to replace the broadcom with something that's better supported, so I bought an intel 2200 mini-pci card (HP branded even!). Upon switching on the notebook after installing the card, I simply got a post message saying "Unsupported wireless device detected" and the notebook wouldn't even boot. Apparently I had the wrong part number. Anyway, considering that, I think it's quite possible that the BIOS sees the notebook has "unsupported" memory in, and simply doesn't pass the boot call to the CD-ROM. The fact that vmware can boot off the CD-ROM, gives me hope that I might be able to make some boot manager call the CD-ROM. I just don't know what. I just don't want to have to buy expensive HP branded memory just to look at a live-cd... Thanks Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
