Re: boot from cd

I've noticed that on some of the XP machines I've tried to boot the
LiveCD on, the BIOS will boot XP no matter what I tell it to use as a
boot sequence. Very weird. Just thought I'd confirm that I've seen
XP/Bios/CDBoot oddness too.

dpk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Rein" <[email protected]>
To: "Glenn Murphy" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-newbies] boot from cd


> On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 23:14, Glenn Murphy wrote:
> > I have burned both the livecd-basic and livecd-ut2003.  I put one
in the
> > cdrom drive, and it doesn't boot (it goes on to the normal winxp
boot
> > with each cd).  The cdrom is only a couple months old (nor was it
cheap
> > (do they even make non-bootable cdrom drives anymore?)) so, I
don't
> > THINK that's the problem.  I've booted from windows cd's in the
past
> > (the only difference was the cdrom, but I haven't tried with my
current
> > cdrom drive.  I'll try that tomorrow).  Thanks for the help.
> >
> > Glenn Murphy
> Glenn,
>
> You've probably already done this, but just in case - double-check
that
> you've selected the CD drive as a boot device in your BIOS setup,
and
> that it comes before your hard disk in the list of boot devices.
>
> In case you don't know how to do this (I apologize if this is
redundant)
> when you boot your computer, press whatever key it tells you to
press
> (usually "Delete" or "F1") to interrupt the boot process and go into
the
> BIOS setup program. In the BIOS setup program hunt around until you
find
> the boot sequence menu. It may be buried under one or more layers of
> submenus, and the wording might be a little different.
>
> Tony
>
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