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From: steve on 22 Mar 2010 07:04 Does anybody know how to get an Acer Aspire AX1301-U1312 to boot from a DVD or CD? It's not one of the choices in the CMOS setup and the Acer website basically says "we don't want you to do it so we're not going to tell you how."
From: Ed Wilson on 22 Mar 2010 12:39 steve wrote: > Does anybody know how to get an Acer Aspire AX1301-U1312 to boot from > a DVD or CD? It's not one of the choices in the CMOS setup and the > Acer website basically says "we don't want you to do it so we're not > going to tell you how." Is there an option for boot menu? Most of the computers I have seen in the last few years has the option to press F12 for a one time boot menu. -- Ed
From: steve on 22 Mar 2010 14:21 On Mar 22, 11:39 am, Ed Wilson <ewil...(a)jackmaxton.com> wrote: > steve wrote: > > Does anybody know how to get an Acer Aspire AX1301-U1312 to boot from > > a DVD or CD? It's not one of the choices in the CMOS setup and the > > Acer website basically says "we don't want you to do it so we're not > > going to tell you how." > > Is there an option for boot menu? Most of the computers I have seen in the > last few years has the option to press F12 for a one time boot menu. > > -- > Ed Well yeah. But the menu has four choices and none of them are booting from a CD or DVD. (and I've tried all four choices)
From: Henrik Carlqvist on 22 Mar 2010 18:13 steve <shmartonak(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
From: steve on 22 Mar 2010 20:06
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. |