Cd-rom Bootable Linux

[ace]

Hello,

 

I am a newbie to linux and now in the process of learning it. Anyway I have a

linux system on a bootable cd-rom. The linux OS can be run from the cd.

Self contained. I have XP Pro on my computer. My system allows bootable cd-rom. My bios is set to boot in the following order. CDROM, Floppy, HD

From some reason it will not boot this linex cd. I took it to another PC running

XP and got the same results. I know the disk works because it booted on a friends win2000 system.

 

Any ideas why the cd-rom won't boot?

 

[borfast]

The only reason I can think of is that your CD-ROM does not allow you to boot from it... is it an old CD-ROM drive?

 

PS - I moved the post to the correct forum for better organization.

[ace]

I have a dell dimension 4100. The cd-rom is a liteon-ltn483s. The Bois allows you

to boot from a CD-ROM. Any idea if this cd-rom is a bootable one?

 

If not any recommendations on one that is

 

Thanks for the help

[boxturt]

I could be wrong but while the bios will handle bootable cds you may have to change the actual boot order for this. I had to bring the cd to the top of the list on mine to get it to work.

 

 

oops - didn't read first post carefully enough

Edited March 27, 2004 by boxturt

[TCH-Rob]

My bios is set to boot in the following order. CDROM, Floppy, HD

 

I cant say for sure, yo can try and change the boot order in the BIOS and save settings, restart and return the boot order to the way it was. Maybe it needs a bit of a kick to get it's memory going.

[ace]

I have tried messing with the bios but have not been successful.

I thinking the cd-rom is not a bootable drive.

[Hockeypuck]

I have tried messing with the bios but have not been successful.

I thinking the cd-rom is not a bootable drive.

If it booted on the Windows 2000 machine, it's bootable. I don't know how you would fix it, but some computers just don't like to boot off stuff. I had that problem trying to install CollegeLinux on an old machine of mine.