CDROM Problem

[Stephen]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Not all BIOSs support CD booting.  Not all implement the full el torito
> spec.  Some only support a subset, and not necesarily the one required
> by the boot loader on the CD.
>
> Some systems can only CD boot from the first optical drive found, not
> any others.  Some can boot from CD but not DVD media (although in one
> case where I encountered this a BIOS update fixed that problem).
>
> Of course booting from CD might be disabled in the BIOS too.
>
>   
But I did manage to boot and load the server Ubuntu after some fiddling.

But that was a one shot success. The desktop Ubuntu would not boot.

And I did the same about two years ago with my first Ubuntu install.

Stephen
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