On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 03:08:03PM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> 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
OK, back to the parts box for me.
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