Trouble booting FC5 from DVD

[Fred Vachon]

> > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 12:23 -0500, Fred Vachon wrote:
> > > Hi - I have downloaded via bittorrent FC-5-i386-DVD.iso and burnt image
> > > on DVD using K3b.  But I am unable to boot from the DVD when I restart
> > > my computer.  I tried burning the boot.iso image to CD but couldn't get
> > > that to boot into FC5 either.  It boots into FC4 which is what I am
> > > currently running.  I installed FC4 by booting off the DVD but can't get
> > > it to boot from the FC5 DVD.  Any ideas much appreciated.  Thanks - fred

> > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 17:31 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > Did you burn it as an image or as a file (are there mutliple files and
> > directories on the disk, or just one)?
> > 
> > Is your machine configured to boot from CD/DVD? Do you have any other
> > bootable CDs/DVDs you can try?
> > 
> > Paul.
> > 
> > 
> 
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 13:10 -0500, Fred Vachon wrote:
> Thanks Paul - I burnt it both ways - as a single iso file and as an
> image "Burn DVD ISO image" from K3b that has multiple files.  Neither
> would boot.
> 
> I tried to restart with an old CD1 of an earlier Fedora release and a
> bootable Knoppix CD that I had.  But no luck.
> 
> I read in some install notes about configuring bios settings to boot
> first from CD drive but I'm not sure how to do this and I never had to
> configure anything before.  I have booted from this CD/DVD drive
> previously (prior to FC4) so I'm not sure why it doesn't work now.  I
> must not be configured to boot from CD/DVD but not sure how to change
> this?  On a restart the DVD drive does get recognized and the disk spins
> - but then it boots into FC4.
> 
> thanks again - fred v.

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