On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 18:12, alberto wrote: > Hi folks, > > I thought they would, but I purchased a second-hand laptop VERSA SXi > with a DVD drive who won't boot my Woody disks (nor any other) > > BIOS is OK, and the drive itself, also. > > Have you got any idea what may be wrong, if there IS anyting wrong > with that? > > Actually, I would like to have an answer to that, first: Is it > possible that DVD-drives won't support booting from CD?
Any (IDE) combination DVD/CD drive should boot from "bootable" CDs. Could it be that the DVD drive is old enough that it is *not* a combination DVD/CD drive, but strictly DVD? -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Oh, great altar of passive entertainment, bestow upon me | | thy discordant images at such speed as to render linear | | thought impossible" (Calvin, regarding TV) | +----------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
