Strange DVD issue

[Lonni J Friedman]

This might be as simple as needing to burn the DVD at a slower speed.
Some older/picky DVD/CD drives just can't read media that is burnt at
faster speeds.

On 6/30/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> I burned FC6t1 to a DVD and verified it.  The DVD automounts on insertion on
> this box.  I then tried to boot my old laptop from the DVD, and the drive
> ground on as though there was an imbalance, unable to boot.  I took the disk
> to another box, and it booted to the install screen without problems.
>
> I put a Knoppix DVD into the laptop drive, and that boots OK.
>
> This is reminding me of problems reported on the Mandriva lists.  As I recall,
> it was said that two versions of boot were available, one on CD1 and one on
> CD2 to get round the physical problems some people were experiencing.  Is
> this a real problem, or a figment of my ancient laptop?

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