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I burned a SUSE 9.2 DVD and am trying to get my DVD to boot it. Yes, I've booted from this drive before. I even tried the DVD Burner drive to boot instead. Nothing! It doesn't even seem to be trying. I even went into the Bios and removed the other drives except for the DVD drive...then at least I got a request for a boot disk. Otherwise it just goes on to boot regularly into GRUB. Please help!
Is the DVD burned Correctly, I once downloaded Knoppix and couldnt boot from it, what happened was that the buffer was under run on my cd and i had a bad disk, i re-burned the image and the new disk worked fine!
Ahhh..thanks guys! Sorry it took so long for me to respond. I couldn't find my posting. (getting senile)
It just boots as if I didn't have anything in the drive. I did change the bios to boot from the DVD drive first...I even went to far as to remove the other drives so it had no choice....I even considered standing over it and threatening to plug it full of lead if ti didn't co-operate.
It could be that I do need to burn a different disk....very possible.
I have booted from this drive many times in the past so it is not new....including my original 9.0 Suse.
Actually, I already have a PM. However, it didn't seem to want to give me a large enough partition for some reason. I think it is because I didn't de-frag. Hmm...since I don't have much on my linux drive yet...I think I'll just burn a DVD with the files I do want and then just install over 9.0.
Thank you for your help guys.....I hope the install goes alright...If not, then I'm going to be up all night downloading all the updates for 9.0 again. (Sigh)
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