Ok, this isn't directly related to Linux so much as just my computer bios but...

My dvd drive is drive 'F'. When I put my SuSE 9.2 Pro dvd in and boot from drive 'F' nothing happens. It just skips it and continues to boot from 'C'. What I also noticed is that when I try to boot from drive 'E', my CD drive, it also skips that (given that there is a bootable cd in the drive of course)

Now this is what baffles me. I CAN choose to boot from 'CDROM' first in the bios and that will boot from my 'E' drive. (confused yet? lol) BUT what I want is to boot from my 'F' drive, my dvd drive.

I'd try to verify that it's not the DVD that's faulty first.
What happens if you stick the CD that will boot when
in E (shivers, windows speak) into F?

If that works the DVD may be faulty, if it doesn't your
BIOS just doesn't like to boot from the 2nd device, and
you can swap them ...

But really this thread belongs in General, not Linux-General


Cheers,
Tink

I would guess your CD is the secondary master and your DVD is your secondary slave, and that selecting "CDROM" in BIOS means that it will boot from the secondary master.

You will have to move CDROM to the top of the boot sequence, and I'd bet that if you change the jumper settings on your CD and DVD (so that the DVD is the master and the CD is the slave) it will work. Good luck with it -- J.W.