booting from DVD?
Hi Folks,
I've been trying to get my system to boot from a DVD, and it's not
working. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong (or more likely, stupid).
The system:
- Foxconn motherboard (681 something)
- Phoenix BIOS
- E-IDE CDROM/DVD+RW drive
- boot order set to CD, HDD
If I stick in a bootable CDROM (e.g., a LiveCD) it boots just fine off
the CD
But... if I stick in what I think is a bootable DVD, the BIOS appears to
spend some time accessing the drive (the light goes on, flashes a bit,
...), but then continues to boot off the hard disk. I've tried this
with both DVDs burned from iso images of xploraknoppix (Debian
derivative live DVD) and the Opensolaris Community Edition (motivation
is really to get solaris running to play with various combinations of
solaris, zfs, xen, debian).
So.... I'm wondering if:
a. I have to change a setting somewhere, or,
b. there's something I'm missing about burning the DVDs so that they're
bootable, or,
c. I'm missing some other step
Thanks for any help.
Miles
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