From: Flip Wilson on
Joel <Joel(a)NoSpam.com> wrote in
news:t20el5hg80qb0vfdt80lm4csmc0vtuok26(a)4ax.com:

> Flip Wilson <Rightback(a)cha.com> wrote:
>
>> "Jan Alter" <bearpuf(a)verizon.net> wrote in
>> news:hiv4ai$obh$1(a)news.eternal- september.org:
>>
>> >
>> > Is 'CD' or 'CD-ROM' listed as one of the items that you can boot?
>>
>> In the CMOS setup utility, my CDROM drive shows up as "SONY CD-RW
>> CRX" under "IDE Primary Master". My DVD drive shows up as
>> "HL-DT-STDVD-RA" under "IDE Primary Slave"
>>
>> As for boot options, there are 9 options:
>> 1) Floppy
>> 2) - 4) Card Reader
>> 5) - 7) Hard drives
>> 8) "CD/DVD: PM-SONY CD-RW CRX216"
>> 9) Disabled
>>
>> So my CD drive is available to boot from.
>
> And have you tried to make 8) "CD/DVD: PM-SONY CD-RW CRX216" as
> the 1st
> Choice?
>

Yes I have.
From: Flip Wilson on
Joel <Joel(a)NoSpam.com> wrote in
news:bj0el51pdgfdtm60bkuikrn92rj4fgu8gm(a)4ax.com:

>
> Bootable CD/DVD is another good question too. I dunno but it
> seems like
> we have more question than answer to the OP.
>

Yes. The DVD in question is a disk image and is bootable.
From: Flip Wilson on
Some additional information.

Since my BIOS seemed insistant to boot Windows 7 from my primary hd no
matter what I specified in the boot order, I disconnected the power and
data connections.
From: Flip Wilson on
Some additional info.

Since my PC was insistant on booting Windows 7 from my primary hd no matter
what I specified in the boot order, I disconnected the power and data
connections to my primary hd (where I keep my OS's) and rebooted. I went
into the BIOS again, and this time, my DVD drive WAS available in the list
of bootable devices. The disk in my DVD drive (Mandriva linux) booted up
just fine. I powered down, reconnected my hd and rebooted. All I got was
"NTLDR is missing". I rebooted and went into the BIOS again and checked the
boot order. The first device, which WAS my DVD drive was changed to my
secondary hd (where I store applications). I sure as hell didn't change it.

I swear M$ knows what I'm trying to do and is trying to stop me ;-)
From: mike on
Flip Wilson wrote:
> Some additional info.
>
> Since my PC was insistant on booting Windows 7 from my primary hd no matter
> what I specified in the boot order, I disconnected the power and data
> connections to my primary hd (where I keep my OS's) and rebooted. I went
> into the BIOS again, and this time, my DVD drive WAS available in the list
> of bootable devices. The disk in my DVD drive (Mandriva linux) booted up
> just fine. I powered down, reconnected my hd and rebooted. All I got was
> "NTLDR is missing". I rebooted and went into the BIOS again and checked the
> boot order. The first device, which WAS my DVD drive was changed to my
> secondary hd (where I store applications). I sure as hell didn't change it.
>
> I swear M$ knows what I'm trying to do and is trying to stop me ;-)

When you install win7 and let it partition the hard drive, you get
an additional partition at the beginning that FSCK's up anything (non-M$)
that depends on the label/order of partitions.

If you partition the hard drive with another program, win7 will install
without adding the partition. Most of my backup image problems went away
when I repartitioned and reinstalled win7 without that FSCKing
lead partition.
Have no idea what happens if you try to dual boot.