Not booting from cdrom

[Prasanth Kumar]

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 00:32 -0700, Dick Brown wrote:
> I did it from RH8, and used xcdroast. If you need to record it from Win, 
> you can probably find some shareware program on download.com that can do 
> it. I just did a search over there for "burn .iso" and came up with 35 
> hits. The second one was actually freeware (Zilla CD-DVD Rip 'N Burn).
> 
> Dick
> 
> Jeremy Harrison wrote:
> 
> > That is probably the problem... I downloaded them on a windows machine 
> > and burned them on with roxio. Any recommendations of how to burn them?
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> From: "Dick Brown" <dikbrown at qwest.net>
> >> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >> Subject: Re: Not booting from cdrom
> >> Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 00:14:35 -0700
> >>
> >> Are you able to boot from any bootable CD (e.g., the RH7 install 
> >> disk)? Have you checked that the CDs are actually bootable? Did you 
> >> download the .iso files and burn them correctly? (If they're not 
> >> burned correctly, you'll just see the .iso file on the disk and they 
> >> won't be bootable (that's what happened to me when I first tried 
> >> burning the Fedora .iso's).
> >>
> >> Dick
> >>
> >> Jeremy Harrison wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hey,
> >>>
> >>> I'm kinda new to installing linux on my computer... So I downloaded 
> >>> fedora and put it on a disc. THen I put it in my computer and 
> >>> rebooted, but it will not boot from the cdrom. I currently have 
> >>> redhat 7 installedwhich installed fine when I put it on. Anyone know 
> >>> what I need to do?
> >>>
> >>> Jeremy
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I'm somewhat late to this thread but I know that on some motherboard you
cannot boot from a cdrom if the drive is on the secondary IDE port. You
might look into that.

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Regards,
Prasanth