Trouble booting FC5 from DVD

[Fred Vachon]

Thanks Paul - I burnt it both ways - as a single iso file and as an
image "Burn DVD ISO image" from K3b that has multiple files.  Neither
would boot.

I tried to restart with an old CD1 of an earlier Fedora release and a
bootable Knoppix CD that I had.  But no luck.

I read in some install notes about configuring bios settings to boot
first from CD drive but I'm not sure how to do this and I never had to
configure anything before.  I have booted from this CD/DVD drive
previously (prior to FC4) so I'm not sure why it doesn't work now.  I
must not be configured to boot from CD/DVD but not sure how to change
this?  On a restart the DVD drive does get recognized and the disk spins
- but then it boots into FC4.

thanks again - fred v.

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 17:31 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 12:23 -0500, Fred Vachon wrote:
> > Hi - I have downloaded via bittorrent FC-5-i386-DVD.iso and burnt image
> > on DVD using K3b.  But I am unable to boot from the DVD when I restart
> > my computer.  I tried burning the boot.iso image to CD but couldn't get
> > that to boot into FC5 either.  It boots into FC4 which is what I am
> > currently running.  I installed FC4 by booting off the DVD but can't get
> > it to boot from the FC5 DVD.  Any ideas much appreciated.  Thanks - fred
> 
> Did you burn it as an image or as a file (are there mutliple files and
> directories on the disk, or just one)?
> 
> Is your machine configured to boot from CD/DVD? Do you have any other
> bootable CDs/DVDs you can try?
> 
> Paul.
> 
>