[mdlug] Alienware doesn't support boot from CD?

[Michael ORourke]

Can you temporarily add a different CD or DVD ROM drive to the box and try 
that?  Or even a SCSI CDROM might do the trick.  I've seen some cases where 
the BIOS didn't seem to recognize the CD/DVD drive and would not allow you 
to select it as a boot device.

-Mike


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Jim Fulner" <fulner at gmail.com>
To: "MDLUG" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 1:06 PM
Subject: [mdlug] Alienware doesn't support boot from CD?


> So my wife just got a brand new shiny Alienware Desktop. I threw the old
> KNOPPIX cd in the machine to boot and Windows starts as normal. 
> Hmmm...first
> thought was that this was the first PC i'd used that didn't have boot off 
> of
> CD first was default. Restarted, went to BIOS, and the BIOS didn't give 
> boot
> from CD as an option. Had boot from USB, several network options and
> Harddisk. Is there anyway I can get it too boot Knoppix, preferably 
> without
> spending one of my USB flash drives.
>
> Google came up with a lot of folks not being able to install Ubuntu on
> similar machines.
>
> Jim
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