Perhaps the optical drive has failed or lost its connection to the scsi bus.
ls -l sr? or dmesg | less should tell you if you have a dev/sr0 On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 12:25 PM Beartooth <bearto...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:57:41 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > On 2020-11-08 13:07, Beartooth wrote: > >> > >> I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. > >> I can't get it to boot from the DVD. > > > How to test for a 64 bit CPU: > > > > $ lscpu | grep -i bit CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit > > Address sizes: 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual > > Looks like I get what you get: > > lscpu | grep -i bit > CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit > Address sizes: 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual > > -- but is that good or bad? > > Fwiw, I tried over and over to get it to boot from a medium in the > tray -- which I neither downloaded nor burned from this machine. But I > think it's not the image: no matter what I find to do in setup (in either > setup, actually -- there seem to be two), the machine shows no sign of > even knowing the medium is there. It just goes right into booting F 32. > > It's possible that I'm failing to recognize the commands, in > either setup display, that will tell the machine to boot from a medium in > its drawer. > > I tried opening and re-closing the drawer. The machine hadn't > mounted the medium, and still didn't. Neither Disk Mounter nor gnome-disk > sees anything in the drawer. Usermount launched by my user denies there > is anything I'm allowed to mount nor unmount, and admonishes me to > contact my administrator. As root, it pops up a box offering to let me > unmount /boot; /boot is full of F 32 files, but shows nothing with 33 in > its name. > > I have not yet tried burning the .iso to a thumb drive. If the > lscpu result above doesn't mean doom, somebody please remind me how to do > it, or where to re-read how! > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User > Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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