On 11/12/06, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My server seemed to be crashed. It seg faulted on start up. However, the
problem was a blank DVD in the drive. Removing that made it boot.
Now I want it to boot from a CentOS DVD. The DVD is good -- it boots on
my laptop. However, the server tries it, and then goes on to boot from
the hard drive. Once up, it won't mount it either.
The OS is FC4, although the boot sequence fails before even grub comes
into play.
The drive has worked for burning and reading CDs. I don't think it ever
worked for a DVD burn or read.
The front door of the drive says RW DVD. fstab has it as:
/dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder auto
pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
There is no hda.
Experience over the years at a number of InstallFests has shown
several instances of drives that can read DVDs but can not boot from
them. The usual ad-hoc solution has been to just install from a set
of CDs. Or to boot from a floppy disk.
carl
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