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elmo ranas

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Registered: 2007-09-22

Posts: 4

dvd / cd stopped booting.

Hi all,
I've searched the forums and I could not find the answer to this perplexing problem.  Suddenly my optical drives stopped being able to boot from.  I have a Dell Dimension 4600i with both dvd and cd drives..  I use to boot from them and now I couldn't. 

Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 1,053

Re: dvd / cd stopped booting.

I'd say check your BIOS settings first to ensure that it is allowing you to boot from the optical drive.  beyond that I've got nothing.

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elmo ranas

Member

Registered: 2007-09-22

Posts: 4

Re: dvd / cd stopped booting.

@Cyrusm

Thanks for the reply.  Yes that is what I did first.  I even change the boot sequence to have the cd-rom drive read first, but still didnt work.  This did not use to be, I could F12 and enter the location of my first boot.   I was so content with Arch that I stop distro hoping for a while and did not need to check out any new live distros till today and found out about this.  Is it possible that GRUB may have cause this?

ibendiben

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Registered: 2007-10-10

Posts: 519

Re: dvd / cd stopped booting.

As a matter of fact, I think I have the same problem. It takes waaay longer before the bootable cd/dvd finally boots. Sometimes it just doesn't. Odd.

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