Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 16:54 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Is the boot order correct? IOW, is the CDROM placed before other
boot devices?
Yes.
If it is, then I suspect you have a hardware problem, which will not
be fixed by putting GRUB on a CDROM.
I considered it, but I doubt, because:
1. It's a new notebook, and the drive works perfectly otherwise.
2. If I start up vmware, the virtual machine can boot off the CD-ROM.
Which tells me the CD-ROM *can* boot a disc, something else is messing
with it. I have a suspicion (this may sound whacky) that it is the
[snip]
Then my guess is that you made the CDROM incorrectly. If you look at
your purported bootable CDROM do you see a single file, or a whole
directory full of files? Try on another machine.
Mike
--
p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}
This message made from 100% recycled bits.
You have found the bank of Larn.
I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you.
I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
