Unable To Boot From a Fedora Core 6 DVD Disk

[Jeffrey D. Yuille]

John Aldrich wrote:
> On Saturday 02 December 2006 8:04 am, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>>     I was able to use a Fedora Core 6 DVD disk that I created and load
>> it into a Windows laptop that belongs to a friend and found that it
>> boots fine into Linux.  The problem sees to be with my own laptop. I
>> already have Fedora Core 6 loaded on it.  The laptop is an IBM  ThinkPad
>> T-30. I have an NEC-CD-RW/DVD+RW Drive which I bought recently for this
>> laptop.  However, whenever I put the disk into my drive to boot from it,
>> it only boots to the hard drive. Would this have anything to do with
>> Anaconda? I already have changed the bios settings that would allow the
>> laptop to boot from the cd-drive. Has anyone else had this problem and
>> if so, how do I correct it?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>     
> I have a similar problem with my Athlon 1100 home-built machine. It just 
> refuses to boot to DVD, although it'll boot to CD just fine. I know that on 
> the KUBuntu DVD, there's a boot image you can put on a floppy and boot from 
> the floppy to then boot a DVD. I'm guessing that would work with Fedora as 
> well.
> 	John
>
>   
Hello John,

     Is there a specific boot file that I can put on the DVD disk that 
would allow me to boot to it?


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Jeffrey D. Yuille
44 Royal Drive, apt # 103
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
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