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| From | Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? |
| Date | 2014-03-20 13:52 -0400 |
| Organization | National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Message-ID | <alpine.LNX.2.02.1403201349001.31518@darkstar.example.org> (permalink) |
| References | <bp0kmlF7aqdU1@mid.individual.net> |
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, notbob wrote: > My problem: I cannot boot a liveDVD (or any other bootable DVD) from > my Sony Vaio P4 box, despite it having a both a DVD and CD-ROM player > and with the AwardBIOS 2.3 configed to boot from the DVD player. Why? > > Live and bootable CDs boot, no problem, from either disc player. But, > DVDs, nada. It's not the DVDs, which are burned from .iso via K3B. > Not even factory burned DVDs will boot. > > Settings on Award boot for this drive are: > Secondary Master DW-U12A > Type Auto > PIO Mode 4 > UltraDMA Mode 2 > > > > spec according to latest lshw: > > *-firmware > description: BIOS > vendor: Award Software, Inc. > physical id: 0 > version: ACPI BIOS Revision 1001 > date: 12/05/2002 > size: 64KiB > capacity: 192KiB > capabilities: pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot > bootselect socketedromedd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 > int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9key\ > board int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb agp > > > The DVD player is on IDE secondary master: > > *-cdrom:0 > description: DVD writer > product: DVD RW DW-U12A > vendor: SONY > physical id: 0.0.0 > bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0 > logical name: /dev/cdr > logical name: /dev/cdr0 > logical name: /dev/cdrom > logical name: /dev/cdrom0 > logical name: /dev/cdrw > logical name: /dev/cdrw0 > logical name: /dev/cdwriter > logical name: /dev/cdwriter0 > logical name: /dev/dvd > logical name: /dev/dvd0 > logical name: /dev/dvdr > logical name: /dev/dvdr0 > logical name: /dev/dvdrw > logical name: /dev/dvdrw0 > logical name: /dev/dvdwriter > logical name: /dev/dvdwriter0 > logical name: /dev/sr0 > version: 2.0e > serial: [ > capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r > configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc > > > I see the BIOS capabilities include "cdboot" and "bootselect", but no > DVD boot. Is that the issue? This both a Sony box and a Sony DVD > ATAPI player. I realize Sony is notorious for their DMR hardware, but > It's an ASUS P4S533VL mobo. The question is, can I change it so I can > boot from the DVD? I see no option to "bootselect" anywhere. I'm > runnning Slackware 14.1. > If you can't tell the computer to boot from the DVD drive, that likely is the issue. This computer isn't new, but I noticed it has a separate keys to get into bios and to set the boot order or whatever. I cant' remember if the bios allows the boot order setting or not. But the bios screen says something about "press this for bios, press that for bootselect". So maybe look more carefully. When I had problems, I'd use the smartboot manager that used to (and maybe still) comes with Slackware. I think you can run that from a USB flash drive, and surely the instructions for that are now there if it can. So that is booted (assuming you set the boot device to be the USB flash drive) and a little program runs that lets you select what to boot from. Michael
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Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2014-03-20 16:52 +0000
Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-03-20 13:52 -0400
Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2014-03-20 11:33 -0700
Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2014-03-26 15:58 +0000
Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2014-03-26 09:56 -0700
Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-03-20 23:40 -0400
Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2014-03-26 17:41 +0000
Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-26 21:44 +0000
Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-03-26 17:56 -0400
Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2014-03-26 16:00 -0700
Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-27 12:38 +0000
Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2014-03-27 08:33 -0700
Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-27 12:36 +0000
Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-03-27 11:56 -0400
Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-03-27 16:23 +0000
Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive? Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-03-27 15:05 +0000
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