Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2700 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rafe wrote:
> > Rafe, this may not be the answer, but I'd try it
> > anyway. Got into the CMOS of 
> > the 'puter and make the FIRST bootable device the
> > DVD, if you can. Since it's 
> > a USB, you may have to disable the floppy to force
> > the 'puter to see the DVD 
> > first.
> >
> > Fred
>
>
> No on this machine, IBM Thinkpad Transnote, one can
> never boot from the cdrom.  Only the usb floppy -
> wierd I know.

Early CDROM's were not bootable. I was told this years ago when I 
wondered why I couldn't boot SuSE 6.1 on an old Fuji laptop.
Regards
Sid.
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Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist
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