On 12/28/2023 15:12:18, joe a wrote:
ASUS A7V733-c.
Created DVD's from ISO images (Tumbleweed, a few days old) and get "active partition not found".
Round and round . . . tried some older Knoppix, Mint, Windows rescue DVD's (R) and they boot fine. Thinking "These new DVD, Staples labled, are, umm, less than good", burned another on an older SONY blank. Same error.
Seems no ISO images of recent vintage want to boot. Tried USB bootables, but the BIOS only knows USB FDD and USB ZIP, so, no boot either, just blinking cursor upper left corner.
Well, dear oh dear. Through some brilliant observational and deductive skills, one discoveres the real difference between bootable and non bootable discs was . . . CD's boot, DVD's don't. Furthest thing from my mind as the 2 IDE drives are clearly DVD and CD capable. That both should fail to read DVD seems a bit much. That it should actually be a BIOS or some other mainboard issue remains possible, but . . . In any case, have to hunt up or buy another DVD drive.