Re: Do DVD-drives support booting?
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 04:12:36PM -0700, alberto wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I thought they would, but I purchased a second-hand laptop VERSA SXi
> with a DVD drive who won't boot my Woody disks (nor any other)
>
> BIOS is OK, and the drive itself, also.
>
//
is the cd ok? (can a different
box boot it? or, can the lap-
top boot any other cd?)
//
> Have you got any idea what may be wrong, if there IS anyting wrong
> with that?
>
> Actually, I would like to have an answer to that, first: Is it
> possible that DVD-drives won't support booting from CD?
>
> Any hint?
> thanks so much.
> alberto
>
>
> --
>
> alberto.
>
>
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my laptop with a combo dvd/cd
burner booted a woody cd (for
a _base_ install, upon which
i upgraded to sid). dvd's are
"backwards" compatible with
cd's, so if cd drive can read
a cd, a dvd drive will read
the same cd, as well.
kthxbye.
b.
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