Glad I could help, Carl! Unfortunately, we have now irrevocably dated
ourselves on this board. ;-)
Cheers,
Lisa
Carl Heyendal wrote:
Lisa, thanks, you nailed it. It boots now from a CD-R. As soon as you
mentioned it, it twigged my memory about that being a problem when
CD-RW's first came out. Time flies!!
Regards
/carl h.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa" <exexpat2 [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com>
To: <linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca>
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 5:08 PM
Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] can't boot from older PC
I'm trying to boot a Fedora 10 Live CD from an 'older' PC that I
want to use as a Linux platform, but it just won't detect the CD
after a restart.
I verified that the PC can detect and boot from a Windows
installation CD, so I know it's not something broken in the PC. I
also verified that the Live CD is bootable on my 'newer' PC.
Is the LiveCD a CD-RW by chance? Some of the early CD-R drives don't
like CD-RW's and will not recognize their presence at all. "Factory"
stamped CD's, and usually CD-R's, will still work on these without a
problem. My old laptop (now inherited by my father) is like that
too. Have you tried a CD-R, or a different CD-R?
The second thing that can go wrong is that old drives can get out of
alignment a bit. If the drive that burned the CD is also a bit out
of alignment but in the opposite direction, the variance can be great
enough to render CD's burned on one to be unreadable on the other.
Try burning the CD on a different drive, or if possible on the drive
of the target system.
Cheers,
Lisa
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