[TriLUG] strange boot problem

[Dave Sorenson]

How good/old/dusty are the CD/DVD drives? I've had problems with the generic
drives reading media consistently especially if they had been in service and
accumulate a little dust/debris in the works.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Merle Watts
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:53 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] strange boot problem




-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Merle Watts <elremx2 at earthlink.net>
Sent: Mar 23, 2004 12:49 PM
To: Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] strange boot problem

It's not the bios

One mb is a shuttle ak35gt2   It has had the latest bios update and it has
had a complete install of both mandrake 9.2 and fedora from the dvd this
year.   installed fedora about 3 weeks ago from the dvd

has also had mandrake 9.0,  9.1,  and 9,2  installed from the cd rom
bootiing from cd..    Has both  dvdrw and a cdrw dives installed.

The other board was just purchased to replace a dead ECS board.  Got a
syntax board from tiger.  Seems to work ok

I put in the hard drive with fedora already installed from the other
computer.  made changes for hardware and it seems to work fine.  

But,  neither computer will boot from the disks.

All disks have been used for install on the shuttle board except for the
mandrake 10cd's Neither computer will boot from the cd's or the dvd's Both
will still boot from the winxp and knoppix cd, they will not boot from the
win me cd eiither


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com>
Sent: Mar 23, 2004 12:33 PM
To: Merle Watts <elremx2 at earthlink.net>, 
	Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] strange boot problem

How old a computer is this?  Have you checked to see if there are any BIOS
updates available?  It's possible that older BIOSes don't like the methods
that certain CDs are using to boot.  




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