[Cialug] Optical Drive Won't Boot

[Nick Fox]

Harddrive should not be slave to a rom drive. Should be the other way 
around. Some BIOS's will freak over this configuration. Slave the DVD to 
the HDD then change the Boot order in the BIOS if you want the DVD to be 
first.

-Nick
> oes to the hard drive, which has a GRUB, but doesn't have a bootable
> system on it.  I checked that the DVD drive is supposed to be the
> first boot device, and also my motherboard will take the F8 key to
> choose boot device.  I use that and explicitly choose the DVD drive.
> It doesn't boot the disc.
>
> My motherboard is mainly SATA, with one IDE connector.  I have the
> optical drive and the hard drive on the IDE connector.  The hard drive
> is slave and the optical drive is master.  I know this set up should
> be okay because on the older CD drive the CD boots (it just dies
> shortly afterward).  The DVD drive is set to master.  I would think
> that if the jumper were set wrong that it wouldn't boot at all, not
> even to the hard drive's GRUB.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions on how to get this DVD drive to boot?
>
> -todd
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Nick Fox

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