can't boot from dvd drive
Hi,
I dual boot with Mint 10 and Mepis 8.5. Lately, I've often found that when I boot up the computer, and get the screen which gives me a choice between the two distros, I can't go any further. Things are frozen. If I use the reset button to start again, that same screen works and I can choose as I should be able to.
Yesterday I found that neither of the live distro cd's would boot and using the reset button made no difference. So, on booting up, I looked at the bios. The delete key showed me that the first boot option was properly set to cd-rom but F12 key showed me that the first boot was set to the HDD.
I thought I'd found the problem. But when I selected the cd-rom as the first boot option it made no difference. Nothing would boot from the dvd drive. I checked the F12 boot sequence in the bios again and found that it was still configured to boot from the HDD. In other words, my attempt to change the boot up from the HDD to the cd-rom hadn't registered.
Could someone tell me what to do now, please? I could re-install one of the distros if necessary.
My hardware: Gigabyte GA-M57sli mobo; athlon 3800 processor; corsair ddr2 xms memory; Nvidia Gforcegt graphics; W.D. 400gb Sata HDD.
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