Re: Grub + CD-ROM

[Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Hans du Plooy wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 16:54 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
> > Is the boot order correct? IOW, is the CDROM placed before other
> > boot devices?
>
>
> Yes.
>
>
> > If it is, then I suspect you have a hardware problem, which will not
> > be fixed by putting GRUB on a CDROM.
>
>
> I considered it, but I doubt, because:
> 1.  It's a new notebook, and the drive works perfectly otherwise.
> 2.  If I start up vmware, the virtual machine can boot off the CD-ROM.
> Which tells me the CD-ROM *can* boot a disc, something else is messing
> with it.  I have a suspicion (this may sound whacky) that it is the

[snip]

Then my guess is that you made the CDROM incorrectly. If you look at
your purported bootable CDROM do you see a single file, or a whole
directory full of files? Try on another machine.

Mike
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