-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote: > Hello, > > I found an old Fedora Core 3 DVD disk laying around and I decided > to see if it could boot fromit on my IBM ThinkPad T-30. To my surprise, > I was able to boot from this disk. I have an NEC 8-X DVD +R/RW > Dual-Layer Burner which I bought a few days ago. I have burned several > Fedora Core 6 DVD iso images to disk but I am not able to boot from any > of these disks. I am more than sure that it is not the bios setup of my > computer because I have set it to boot from the CD-ROM setting. The > only thing left that I can think of is that it may have something to do > with the media. I am using DVD +R media, 16x. I also notice that the > Fedora Core 3 DVD disk is not purple on its burn side (it is clear) > whereas the DVD disks that I burned the images to are purple. Is the > reason why they may not be bootable? Has anyone else had this problem. > I don't believe its because of the hardware (even though the laptop > itself is almost four years old). Has anyone been able to successfully > burn bootable Fedora Core 6 iso images to DVD disks? May it have > something to do with the boot loader? Any help is appreciated. Can you 'look at' (open) the DVD? Does it show one large file named <something>.iso or directories with files? In other words did you copy the ISO to the DVD? Or did you burn an ISO image to the DVD? You should have done the second one and you should see directories and files. - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFcf9frItTyWRhT1YRAuiKAKCtk+5qTUgXCnbFYypd5tNV0tcJFACgtMSJ fON5njQbHbur0fMDcF5hoEc= =7351 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
