Unable To Boot From DVD disk

[Jeffrey D. Yuille]

 Hello,

     I found an old Fedora Core 3 DVD disk laying around  and I decided 
to see if it could boot fromit on my IBM ThinkPad T-30.  To my surprise, 
I was able to boot from this disk. I have an NEC 8-X DVD +R/RW 
Dual-Layer Burner which I bought a few days ago. I have burned several 
Fedora Core 6 DVD iso images to disk but I am not able to boot from any 
of these disks.  I am more than sure that it is not the bios setup of my 
computer because I have set it to boot from the CD-ROM setting.  The 
only thing left that I can think of is that it may have something to do 
with the media.  I am using DVD +R media, 16x. I also notice that the 
Fedora Core 3 DVD disk is not purple on its burn side (it is clear) 
whereas the DVD disks that I burned the images to are purple.  Is the 
reason why they may not be bootable?  Has anyone else had this problem.  
I don't believe its because of the hardware (even though the laptop 
itself is almost four years old). Has anyone been able to successfully 
burn bootable Fedora Core 6 iso images to DVD disks?  May it have 
something to do with the boot loader?  Any help is appreciated. 


-- 
Jeffrey D. Yuille
44 Royal Drive, apt # 103
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
(USA)