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From: Grant on 22 Mar 2010 21:45 On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:06:02 -0700 (PDT), steve <shmartonak(a)ticnet.com> wrote: >On Mar 22, 5:13 pm, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqv...(a)deadspam.com> >wrote: >> steve <shmarto...(a)ticnet.com> wrote: >> > On Mar 22, 11:39 am, Ed Wilson <ewil...(a)jackmaxton.com> wrote: >> >> Is there an option for boot menu? >> > Well yeah. But the menu has four choices and none of them are booting >> > from a CD or DVD. >> >> What choices do you have then? Maybe you can boot from a floppy or usb >> stick or something that chains to the DVD? The Slackware installation disk >> includes sbootmgr in the isolinux directory, with that one you are >> supposed to be able to boot from CD by first booting from floppy. >> >> I haven't tried it myself, but I guess that it would be possible to use >> syslinux to boot from a USB stick with the same kernel and ramdisk as >> would be used if booted from DVD. >> >> regards Henrik >> -- >> The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: >> hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: >> root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost > >The four choices given are: > > + Removable > + Hard Disk > + NVIDIA Boot Agent > P2-HL-DT-ST DVDRA > >"Removable" seemed promising but every time I tried it I got a message >"No Bootable Device Found". Maybe a bootable stick would work. I >dunno. I don't have one. No floppy drive either. >I've no idea what the NVIDIA Boot Agent is but when I tried it the >computer booted off the hard drive. No response at all with "PS-HL-DT- >ST DVDRA". I'm guessing that the lack of a '+' sign may have >something to do with the lack of response. No boot order anywhere? Or USB boot type? Grant.
From: cybrinjn on 22 Mar 2010 22:14 On Mar 22, 8:06 pm, steve <shmarto...(a)ticnet.com> wrote: > On Mar 22, 5:13 pm, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqv...(a)deadspam.com> > wrote: > > > > > steve <shmarto...(a)ticnet.com> wrote: > > > On Mar 22, 11:39 am, Ed Wilson <ewil...(a)jackmaxton.com> wrote: > > >> Is there an option for boot menu? > > > Well yeah. But the menu has four choices and none of them are booting > > > from a CD or DVD. > > > What choices do you have then? Maybe you can boot from a floppy or usb > > stick or something that chains to the DVD? The Slackware installation disk > > includes sbootmgr in the isolinux directory, with that one you are > > supposed to be able to boot from CD by first booting from floppy. > > > I haven't tried it myself, but I guess that it would be possible to use > > syslinux to boot from a USB stick with the same kernel and ramdisk as > > would be used if booted from DVD. > > > regards Henrik > > -- > > The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: > > hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: > > root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost > > The four choices given are: > > + Removable > + Hard Disk > + NVIDIA Boot Agent > P2-HL-DT-ST DVDRA > > "Removable" seemed promising but every time I tried it I got a message > "No Bootable Device Found". Maybe a bootable stick would work. I > dunno. I don't have one. No floppy drive either. > I've no idea what the NVIDIA Boot Agent is but when I tried it the > computer booted off the hard drive. No response at all with "PS-HL-DT- > ST DVDRA". I'm guessing that the lack of a '+' sign may have > something to do with the lack of response. If you had a floppy, it would be easy. SBM http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ could solve the problem. Maybe you should get a cheap little jump drive and install it on that...
From: Michael Black on 22 Mar 2010 23:04 On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, steve wrote: > On Mar 22, 5:13 pm, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqv...(a)deadspam.com> > wrote: >> steve <shmarto...(a)ticnet.com> wrote: >>> On Mar 22, 11:39 am, Ed Wilson <ewil...(a)jackmaxton.com> wrote: >>>> Is there an option for boot menu? >>> Well yeah. But the menu has four choices and none of them are booting >>> from a CD or DVD. >> >> What choices do you have then? Maybe you can boot from a floppy or usb >> stick or something that chains to the DVD? The Slackware installation disk >> includes sbootmgr in the isolinux directory, with that one you are >> supposed to be able to boot from CD by first booting from floppy. >> >> I haven't tried it myself, but I guess that it would be possible to use >> syslinux to boot from a USB stick with the same kernel and ramdisk as >> would be used if booted from DVD. >> >> regards Henrik >> -- >> The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: >> hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: >> root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost > > The four choices given are: > > + Removable > + Hard Disk > + NVIDIA Boot Agent > P2-HL-DT-ST DVDRA > > "Removable" seemed promising but every time I tried it I got a message > "No Bootable Device Found". Maybe a bootable stick would work. I > dunno. I don't have one. No floppy drive either. > I've no idea what the NVIDIA Boot Agent is but when I tried it the > computer booted off the hard drive. No response at all with "PS-HL-DT- > ST DVDRA". I'm guessing that the lack of a '+' sign may have > something to do with the lack of response. > This is vague, because I'm not absolutely sure things were as I remember. But I remember looking at the bios or boot menu (I can't remember which) for my Aspire One netbook, and there didn't seem to be a way of booting from removeable whatever. Yet then later, I was able to boot from a USB flash drive. The only thing I can think of is that the option wasn't visbile or selectable until I had an actual bootable flash drive plugged in. I'm not sure how that translates to a DVD, but maybe try putting the DVD in the drive and then getting to the menu. Michael
From: Henrik Carlqvist on 23 Mar 2010 03:10 steve <shmartonak(a)ticnet.com> wrote: > + Removable This might be USB stick or maybe some other kind of flash card. > + Hard Disk We know what this is :-) > + NVIDIA Boot Agent This is probably network booting by PXE. Also this one could probably be useful together with syslinux to boot the slackware installation kernel and ramdisk. However, to use this you will have to do some reading on how to set up a boot server. > P2-HL-DT-ST DVDRA As you, I guess this is your DVD. > Maybe a bootable stick would work. I dunno. I don't have one. Do you have a USB stick you could make bootable with syslinux? > I've no idea what the NVIDIA Boot Agent is but when I tried it the > computer booted off the hard drive. No response at all with "PS-HL-DT- > ST DVDRA". I'm guessing that the lack of a '+' sign may have > something to do with the lack of response. It could be two reasons that it doesn't boot from your DVD. First, as you say, the lack of the + sign. Maybe + means that the boot device is activated. The other reason could be the boot order. Maybe the computer now first tries "Removable", then "Hard Disk" but as it is able to boot from there it won't try "NVIDIA Boot Agent". In many boot menus like this it is possible not only to activate different boot media but also to change the order in which different media is tried. regards Henrik -- The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost
From: Ed Wilson on 23 Mar 2010 10:20 steve wrote: > + Removable > + Hard Disk > + NVIDIA Boot Agent > P2-HL-DT-ST DVDRA > > "Removable" seemed promising but every time I tried it I got a message > "No Bootable Device Found". Maybe a bootable stick would work. I > dunno. I don't have one. No floppy drive either. > I've no idea what the NVIDIA Boot Agent is but when I tried it the > computer booted off the hard drive. No response at all with "PS-HL-DT- > ST DVDRA". I'm guessing that the lack of a '+' sign may have > something to do with the lack of response. Is your DVD pressed or burned? I have seen some drives that don't like burned media. can you put the disc in another computer and verify the disc was burned correctly? Do you currently have on operating system on this laptop that you could use to checksum the files on the laptop itself. I have a set of discs and one drive that seem to work but if I put the disc in I get errors when accessing some of the files on the disc, but the disc is fine in another computer. If this is your problem you could try burning the disc with a different brand of media. -- Ed
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