computer won't boot from cd
this computer's always booted from a cd fine.
it's a gateway 1100MHz AMD Processor 256 RAM but now it won't boot from cd i've looked around in the bios, but i haven't found anything that will let it boot from cd thanks for any help |
during boot, do you get a message saying "Hit f2 for boot menu"?...if so, hit it!
Also, alot of those Gateway/Compaq/HP/HomePCsbought from Best Buy disable alot of things that could confuse a home user (like booting from CD)....so I'm sure it is buried somewhere in your BIOS settings. Also, if you are just trying to install a linux OS, you could boot from a floppy to start the install....but thats a different story. Oh, even simplier....you sure its a bootable CD? |
computer won't boot from cd
Hello,
Is it possible to read a CDRom we the computer is runnig ? Maybe you cdrom drive is defect and it's time to search a new one. Have you tried other cd to boot from ? Some old cd are damaged and no more readeable. A to hight burning speed may leed to non readeable cdrom in older drives. A other solution is the softly clean the drive to remove dust and give a second chance. good luck. -- free_ouyo |
debian mike - i'm sure it's a bootable cd, i've booted from it before. i've looked in the BIOS and it says it will boot from cd. i've booted from a cd before, i have linux on there now, i just want to change distros.
cds don't show up when i have the computer running. they did yesterday tho. free_ouyo - how do you clean the drive? |
computer won't boot from cd
you can try to clean with
- a dvd/cd drive cleaner - a dust remover (comprimed air spay) maybe it's end of live for the drive. (I had similar 2 weeks ago with 4 years old cd-writer) good luck free_ouyo |
it's a dual-drive
do you think i could switch the order of the drives or take one out? it's setup as master-slave |
computer won't boot from cd
Hello garyozzy,
I don't really understand what you want to do. Do you mean you have 2 HD master-slave and want to remove 1 ? It's not a problem to remove or add a HD but you need a hd with a booteable OS and you may have some troubles with removing a hd of the system (links, mountpoints ...) -- free_ouyo |
sorry for not being specific. it's a dual CD-ROM drive that's set up as master/salve.
if i switched the master to the slave and the slave to the master, would that change anything. also, if i took one drive out and left one in, would that create trouble? |
computer won't boot from cd
hello again,
I don't think the change, remove of a cdrom drive will create some troubles. It's a good solution to replace the deffect one by the other so the /dev/hdx is preserved and no problems should happen -- free_ouyo |
I'd take it step by step. Check that you can read the CD. Try other bootable CDs. Try booting from the boot menu, if necessary try a boot floppy.
I've had many cases where a CD drive has problems reading a "home burned" CD and even where the CD is readable but will not boot. A solution which often has worked is to lower the PIO mode in CMOS setup. I have concluded that older CD drives don't like CDs burned at faster than 2 or 4x |
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