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Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive?

From Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Why no boot DVD from DVD drive?
Date 2014-03-26 16:00 -0700
Organization dis
Message-ID <lgvm6f$mjm$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 03/26/2014 02:56 PM, Michael Black wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> On 26/03/14 17:41, notbob wrote:
>>> On 2014-03-21, Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> SOmetimes it seems like some options don't appear unless the
>>>> hardware is
>>>> there.  But I assume this is a desktop?  So both drives should be
>>>> there.
>>>
>>> Yes.  I have two near identical Vaio's.  Both have DVDs, both have a
>>> BIOS that lists the DVD players, and both allow the DVD to be listed
>>> and be first boot device, which I've done on both, several times.
>>> Nada!  I've never been able to boot a DVD from either one.  Even
>>> installing Slack requires I use the CDs.
>>>
>>> I may try the "disconnect CD player" suggestion.
>>>
>>> nb
>>>
>> There may simply not be enough smarts in the BIOS to 'understand' a DVD.
>>
>> If windows of that era came on CDS, why bother?
>>
> I don't know what "that era is", but I first got a DVD drive in a 1GHz
> computer, it was a hand me down that I got at the end of 2003.  So
> something has to be actually old to be before that time.
>
>    Michael
>

	Reading about this issue for over a week.
	Maybe you need a BIOS Update?

	bliss

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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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