Unable To Boot From a Fedora Core 6 DVD Disk

[jim tate]

Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> jim tate wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>>   
>> If you got a good bootable disk and it won't off DVD that has to do 
>> with your computers BIOS, check
>> BIOS setup.
>>
>> Jim
>>
> Hello Jim,
>
>     I already did check my bios.  I notice that there is only a 
> listing there for a CD drive and not a DVD drive.  I recently bought 
> my drive.  Does this have anything to do with it, even though I 
> adjusted the cd drive to boot first?
>
>
Check the front panel of your cdrom, does it say dvd reader, or dvd 
writer or DVD R/W , most drive have this stamped into the plastic of 
front cover.

jim