Ted Roche-2 wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> why would a computer with a failed SATA hard >> drive be unable to boot from a liveDVD in the optical drive? > > Perhaps the machine's BIOS was not configured to boot from the optical > drive. > > No - what I have done for a long time is set it to boot from HD but when starting the boot process, like many machines you can hit F12 and select which device to boot from - that is how I do many processes like partitioning etc.... In fact with no alteration in the BIOS settings at all - once the new HD was in place I interrupted the boot with F12 and selected the optical drive to start PartedMagic from the liveDVD - exactly this process worked once the new drive was in place where it failed to do so with the dead HD in place - that is something I never experienced before. Clearly whatever had failed in the drive did something really bad to the system so that booting from the other drive would not work - that was why it was such as nasty failure - and led me to believe that it was more than just a bad HD - maybe others have had something similar? Anyway f11 is now running on the machine in question and it is doing its long yum update as I write this... -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Why-should-a-machine-not-boot-liveCD-if-HD-fails--tp26137073p26137763.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
