[Techtalk] Booting from CDROM

Brenda Bell k15a-list-linuxchix at theotherbell.com
Tue Dec 17 15:02:55 EST 2002


At 12:45 12/17/2002, Meryll Larkin wrote:
>The computer that I built as a Server is not booting from CDROM.  It did
>boot from CDROM before there was an OS (RedHat Linux 7.2) on it, but now
>that I want to UPGRADE, I'm having a difficult time.

I believe the only thing that determines whether your computer boots from a 
specific device would be the boot configuration in the BIOS.  On all of my 
systems, I'm able to enable specific devices as "bootable" as well as set 
the order in which the BIOS scans for a bootable device.




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