I have an IBM NetVista PC with a 866 MHz Pentium 3. I just upgraded to a new Samsumg DVD writer drive. The bios is configured to have the DVD drive before the hard drive in the boot order. The PC is able to boot with CD1 of the OpenSuSE 10.2 CD set but it does not boot from the OpenSuSE 10.2 DVD. If SuSE is installed from CD and the PC is running, it is able to read from that 10.2 DVD. The PC bios is updated with the latest available from IBM.
I have attempted to search this list and OpenSuSE for answers to this problem. I have found a few related threads about DVD booting issues but so far have not been able to get any answers that really explain the issue and the solution. Can anyone please explain just how is a DVD boot image different from a CD one that makes older PCs not boot from them? The reason I am trying to install from a DVD instead of just using the CDs is because I want to install JAD from http://jacklab.org/ with is currently only available as a DVD iso. I tried using mkbootdisk but the resulting floppy didn't boot correctly so that was a dead end. I tried putting the DVD on another PC and using install from ftp but I think I didn't have the host setup correctly so that didn't get far either. What I ended up doing is booting from the regular SuSE CD1 then after it was booted, I replaced the CD with the JAD DVD and proceeded with the install. It appears to have worked and as far as I can tell the system is operating ok. Is this method of booting from CD and swapping to DVD a valid approach? Would there be issues with the boot CD being plain SuSE 10.2 and the DVD being the JAD customized 10.2? Damon Register -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
