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Can't boot from CD, will GRUB help

Re239 · 2007-06-07 11:00:38

So I cannot boot from the CD drive. I think there is a problem with the BIOS. When I get to the system boot menu during startup, the keyboard puts on a fancy LED display (num lock, caps lock, scroll lock flash in sequence) and wont respond. SUSE is already on the machine. During startup it presents a choice of normal and…

07-06-2007 11:00am

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Re239

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So I cannot boot from the CD drive. I think there is a problem with the BIOS. When I get to the system boot menu during startup, the keyboard puts on a fancy LED display (num lock, caps lock, scroll lock flash in sequence) and wont respond.

SUSE is already on the machine. During startup it presents a choice of normal and safe mode. So I'm thinking of booting up and changing this GRUB (I think) menu to boot to the CD.

Does anybody know how?

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#2 07-06-2007 12:27pm

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Interesting idea. You might be able to point grub at a cdrom drive alright, but it'll need a compressed linux kernel on it. You should just need to copy / paste the line in your grub file and change the device name / kernel filename.

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