On 02/23/2011 11:43 AM, fred smith wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:02:52AM -0500, Jim wrote: >> On 02/22/2011 11:00 AM, les wrote: >>> 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 >>> >> Problem Fixed. Sony Laptop PCG-7142L >> >> What I did was remove SATA hard drive from laptop and put on my Fedora >> 14 PC and used gparted and removed crashed Vista partitions and put >> Fedora 14 on it. >> >> Put back into Laptop and now it will let me Boot off of Cdrom. I was >> also told that Sony does not support USB booting. >> >> The way Vista was installed on hard drive wouldn't let cdrom boot, only >> boot from hard drive. >> >> Also found 7 dead keys on keyboard, will have to buy new keyboard, for >> around $60-70. someone must have beat hard on keys. Sure is a Cheap >> keyboard. >> >> Connected external USB keyboard and now the computer works great. > You may have tried this, but I didn't catch it in your postings. > Some/many computers have a "boot menu" in the bios/setup utility that > is a separate screen (accessed by a different hotkey during boot) than > the "setup menu". My (admittedly limited) experience with these PCs is > that if you want to boot off an external drive, you need to enter that > boot menu AT EVERY BOOT and select the external device. Those systems > where I've used an external device generally refuse to boot from it if > I simply change around the boot priority in the normal setup menus. I checked the boot priority before booting each time. What is weird I tried to enable boot on devices;
1. cdrom 2. external USB 3. network To block out Hard Drive from booting , and it still wouldn't boot off Cdrom. Since I have installed Fedora on hard drive from my PC, I now can boot from cdrom drive. The Vista setup on the hard drive was causing the boot problems from anything but the hard drive. -- 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
