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From: Jeff Strickland on 31 Mar 2010 11:58

"Edwin Sineath" <piedmont79(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:E8udnSYIHZ3lWC_WnZ2dnUVZ_v6dnZ2d(a)earthlink.com...
>I put in a live CD to boot from, computer doesn't boot from it, boots from
>hard drive. But once it boots up, the CD is recognized so apparently there
>is nothing wrong with the drive. But I don't know what is causing this.
>The BIOS is set to boot from CD first.


Either the boot priority does not list the CD ahead of the HDD, or the CD is
not bootable.






From: Edwin Sineath on 31 Mar 2010 14:48
Neil Green wrote:
> Edwin Sineath wrote:
>> I put in a live CD to boot from, computer doesn't boot from it, boots
>> from hard drive. But once it boots up, the CD is recognized so
>> apparently there is nothing wrong with the drive. But I don't know
>> what is causing this. The BIOS is set to boot from CD first.
>
> Are you sure the CD is bootable?
>
>
Yes, it is bootable. Put the CD in another computer and it booted to
the CD, which is a live-install CD.
From: Edwin Sineath on 31 Mar 2010 15:06
Jeff Strickland wrote:
> "Edwin Sineath" <piedmont79(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:E8udnSYIHZ3lWC_WnZ2dnUVZ_v6dnZ2d(a)earthlink.com...
>> I put in a live CD to boot from, computer doesn't boot from it, boots from
>> hard drive. But once it boots up, the CD is recognized so apparently there
>> is nothing wrong with the drive. But I don't know what is causing this.
>> The BIOS is set to boot from CD first.
>
>
> Either the boot priority does not list the CD ahead of the HDD, or the CD is
> not bootable.
>
>
>
>
>
>
That's what I thought...but the CD is bootable (tried it in another
computer and it booted) and....(I don't believe I did this!) the boot
priority doesn't list the CD ahead of the HDD. I just fixed it so I
assume I'm good to go.
From: Edwin Sineath on 31 Mar 2010 15:39
Jeff Strickland wrote:
> "Edwin Sineath" <piedmont79(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:E8udnSYIHZ3lWC_WnZ2dnUVZ_v6dnZ2d(a)earthlink.com...
>> I put in a live CD to boot from, computer doesn't boot from it, boots from
>> hard drive. But once it boots up, the CD is recognized so apparently there
>> is nothing wrong with the drive. But I don't know what is causing this.
>> The BIOS is set to boot from CD first.
>
>
> Either the boot priority does not list the CD ahead of the HDD, or the CD is
> not bootable.
>
>
>
>
>
>
OK, fixed boot priority and verified that the CD is bootable by putting
it in another computer. Now when the computer tries to boot this CD, I
get a checksum error, and it doesn't boot. If there's something wrong
with the CD, why will it work on another computer? BTW, I tried another
live-install CD (one that I know works, have used it to install an OS)
on this same computer and it also wouldn't boot and gave the checksum error.
From: Baron on 31 Mar 2010 20:00
Edwin Sineath Inscribed thus:

> Jeff Strickland wrote:
>> "Edwin Sineath" <piedmont79(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
>> news:E8udnSYIHZ3lWC_WnZ2dnUVZ_v6dnZ2d(a)earthlink.com...
>>> I put in a live CD to boot from, computer doesn't boot from it,
>>> boots from
>>> hard drive. But once it boots up, the CD is recognized so
>>> apparently there
>>> is nothing wrong with the drive. But I don't know what is causing
>>> this. The BIOS is set to boot from CD first.
>>
>>
>> Either the boot priority does not list the CD ahead of the HDD, or
>> the CD is not bootable.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> OK, fixed boot priority and verified that the CD is bootable by
> putting
> it in another computer. Now when the computer tries to boot this CD,
> I
> get a checksum error, and it doesn't boot. If there's something wrong
> with the CD, why will it work on another computer? BTW, I tried
> another live-install CD (one that I know works, have used it to
> install an OS) on this same computer and it also wouldn't boot and
> gave the checksum error.

In that case the CD drive is suspect !

--
Best Regards:
Baron.
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