On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 14:52 -0500, Jim wrote: > On 02/21/2011 02:33 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > --- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jim<binary...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > >> A Sony Vaio will not let me boot on > >> cdrom with a Crashed Windows OS, > >> trying to install Fedora only on laptop. Even if I > >> have BIOS set to > >> boot off Cdrom. > >> > >> I even hooked a external cdrom to usb and enabled in Bios > >> to be first > >> boot device, won't work, in all cases it will > >> only Attempt to Load > >> Windows. > >> > >> It won't even let you disable hard drive in Boot process. > > This may be a stupid question, but have you checked the ORDER of the chosen > > boot devices in BIOS? If the hard drive is first in the boot chain, even > > if the CDROM drive is set as bootable, BIOS will stll go to the hard drive > > first to boot the system regardless of a bootable CD being in the CDROM > > drive. > > > > B > Done that, cdrom is first boot device, and hard drive is second boot device. > > I think this is a Vista install and Sony has the laptop bootup setup to > bootup on a path to Windows on hard drive. and ignores the cdrom.
Most laptops today prompt you to push a function key to get access to the boot menu. If there is no message on the screen, try pressing F12 repeatedly during the boot process. Regards, Les H -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
