On 11/12/06, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Second thought, on second reading of the problem. The drive can't
read DVDs at all, as shown by "it won't mount it either". Maybe it is
just so old that it can only read pressed DVDs not home-burned ones.
I have a drive like that on my Thinkpad 600E. Has it ever read DVDs
or have you never gotten around to trying that?
carl
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