Arun Khan wrote: > On Wednesday 02 Jul 2008, Rony wrote: >> Arun Khan wrote: >>> If the media is good, then the hardware could be flaky, like my >>> DVD/RW. It can boot from a bootable CD but bootable DVD no go. >> The problems are pro-Doze mobo/bios related. I carry a magic box that >> has a mix of various live CDs and DVDs. :-) >> > > *In my case, the DVD/RW used to boot from both bootable CDs and DVDs. :( > * > -- Arun Khan > With DVD's there is an issue of some older devices being specific about media, some DVD readers are built for DVD+R and some are for DVD-R the newer devices come with support for both.
well friends, the issue that originally raised this help thread has been resolved, the issue was about the boot parameters that needed to be added to the boot command, addition of the following did the trick: *noapic acpi=off and pnpbios=off* sometimes the option *generic.all_generic_ide=1* too needed to be added (in case the system still hangs or acts stubborn) for some reason the option *quiet *seems to throw the generic.all_generic_ide=1 option as invalid Surya Pratap -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
