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Bomerman
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 Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:03 pm Post subject: Old motherboard unable to boot DVDs, CDs don't burn right. |
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| Can anyone help me with this? I have Red Hat Fedora Core 3 on the Linux Bible 2005 DVD, but the computer won't boot to the DVD drive. I have gone through many CD-Rs, slowing down on last ones, but it still fails the media check. Is there any way to boot to the DVD drive without buying new hardware? |
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towy71
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:55 pm Post subject: RE: Old motherboard unable to boot DVDs, CDs don |
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if you boot using SmartBootManager you ought to be able to boot from the DVD, SBM is on most if not all recent LXF disks or can be downloaded from: http://btmgr.webframe.org/
I know it works on my test machine which happily boots from a CD but NOT from DVD until SMB 
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Bomerman
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 2:01 pm Post subject: Old motherboard unable to boot DVDs, CDs don't burn |
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| towy71 wrote: | if you boot using SmartBootManager you ought to be able to boot from the DVD, SBM is on most if not all recent LXF disks or can be downloaded from: http://btmgr.webframe.org/
I know it works on my test machine which happily boots from a CD but NOT from DVD until SMB
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Hmm... I have it, I've got the computer on a KVM. Let me test it right now, but when I tried, it didn't recognize it. |
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Bomerman
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 2:17 pm Post subject: Tested SBM |
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| No luck, it doesn't come up. It doesn't even see it as a CD Drive. |
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towy71
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 2:31 pm Post subject: RE: Tested SBM |
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It was my best guess 
I think there is a way of installing from an existing partition but I can't remember how it goes having never tried it myself. Will google a bit and see what I come up with.
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Bomerman
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 2:39 pm Post subject: Re: RE: Tested SBM |
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| towy71 wrote: | It was my best guess
I think there is a way of installing from an existing partition but I can't remember how it goes having never tried it myself. Will google a bit and see what I come up with.
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Well, an existing partition may not be a viable solution, as the other computer does not have access to even my network, and has no OS. |
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towy71
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 2:41 pm Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Tested SBM |
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here you go there is a way: http://www.eglug.org/node/967
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 2:45 pm Post subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: Tested SBM |
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Problem: It has no OS. I might be able to get the partitions set up, but how would I get the ISOs onto the HD? |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:34 am Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Tested SBM |
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| Does it boot from CD ? Is there only one drive on the IDE channel? Are you using CSel or Master/Slave. I found with older motherboards that they get grumpy with one channel using 80-pin cables and one using 40-pin cables, and other things like Master / Slave Drive settings; if the DVD rom is the only thing on the channel and it is set as slave, it probably wont be able to boot, so on so forth |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Tested SBM |
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| youlikeicecream wrote: | | Does it boot from CD ? Is there only one drive on the IDE channel? Are you using CSel or Master/Slave. I found with older motherboards that they get grumpy with one channel using 80-pin cables and one using 40-pin cables, and other things like Master / Slave Drive settings; if the DVD rom is the only thing on the channel and it is set as slave, it probably wont be able to boot, so on so forth |
1. Yes
2. Not sure, but I think so.
3. M/S
Right now, I'm going to put an install of FC 3 that only uses disk one, so I have an OS. |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 6:48 pm Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Tested SBM |
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I've got it! I'll use partitions made by minimum of FC 3, install Slackware 10.1 from LXF 66, and I have a basic graphical OS.
-Bomerman (quick reply) |
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Bomerman
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:30 pm Post subject: Woohoo |
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| Anonymous wrote: | I've got it! I'll use partitions made by minimum of FC 3, install Slackware 10.1 from LXF 66, and I have a basic graphical OS.
-Bomerman (quick reply) |
NVM, even better. I got the CDs burned at x4 instead of x8 (the one computer's lower limit was x and they work! They passed the media check at least. |
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