Hi Willie,
You were right on the money about the BIOS. I went online to see if
there's a new version of the BIOS. There wasn't but I downloaded the
one I have again anyways, and loaded it. Reboot, and what do you know,
it boot straight off the CD! So it would seem that my BIOS was somehow
dama
Hans du Plooy wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 05:54 -0700, Willie Wonka wrote:
> > Perhaps try;
> > if there's a "Load Setup Optimized Defaults" (BUT... note ALL your
> > orig. settings Prior).
> I'll do that. There isn't a lot in the BIOS though, it's extremely
> basic. I borrowed my old 512mb d
Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 12:06 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
I wish it was that simple, but it's not CDs I made. It's *any* bootable
CD. My SUSE DVD, or example, that boots quite happily on my PC.
Oh well, I'll keep trying.
Then we're back to: You likely have a hardware prob
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 05:54 -0700, Willie Wonka wrote:
> If for some odd reason, you think it's RAM module/size related, I
> suggest you go over your BIOS settings with a fine
> toothed-comb...(though I'm guessing) look into settings like "shadow
> BIOS", and "Hole at 1MB boundary" (or 15-16MB boun
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 12:06 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > I wish it was that simple, but it's not CDs I made. It's *any* bootable
> > CD. My SUSE DVD, or example, that boots quite happily on my PC.
> >
> > Oh well, I'll keep trying.
>
> Then we're back to: You likely have a hardware problem.
Hans du Plooy wrote:
> 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
Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:52 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Then my guess is that you made the CDROM incorrectly. If you look at
your purported bootable CDROM do you see a single file, or a whole
directory full of files? Try on another machine.
I wish it was that simple, but
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:52 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Then my guess is that you made the CDROM incorrectly. If you look at
> your purported bootable CDROM do you see a single file, or a whole
> directory full of files? Try on another machine.
I wish it was that simple, but it's not CDs I made.
Hans du Plooy wrote:
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
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.
Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 11:12 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
This is very vague. Did this machine ever boot off of CDROM?
Some machines have a BIOS option which can be set.
Does it have a floppy disc drive? If so, and your BIOS
does not have an option to boot like that, then you
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 11:12 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> This is very vague. Did this machine ever boot off of CDROM?
> Some machines have a BIOS option which can be set.
> Does it have a floppy disc drive? If so, and your BIOS
> does not have an option to boot like that, then you
> might try the S
Hans du Plooy wrote:
Hi guys,
I have a curious problem whereby my notebook won't boot off a CD-ROM.
Now I'm trying to find a way to get around this.
This is very vague. Did this machine ever boot off of CDROM?
Some machines have a BIOS option which can be set.
Does it have a floppy disc drive?
Hi guys,
I have a curious problem whereby my notebook won't boot off a CD-ROM.
Now I'm trying to find a way to get around this.
I have, on another PC, in my GRUB config, this:
chainloader (fd0)+1
which is convenient because if I want to test something on a stiffy I
don't have to change my BIOS
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