(way OT) thinkpad and cdrom booting

(way OT) thinkpad and cdrom booting

[Cheryl Homiak]

I have a T23 thinkpad and some of you helped me when I was first setting 
linux up on it.
I had thought that if a bootable cdrom was placed in the cdrom drive, the 
boot would default to that, as with the floppy. However, I just tried this 
with the first cd of the fedora cdrom set (speakup;  yarrow) and I 
got taken directly to lilo instead. can somebody kindly refresh me on 
this? Do I have to do something in the bios or is it possible that I've 
made some kind of mistake in my burning, though I can't think what that 
would be?
Thanks.

-- 
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

Re: (way OT) thinkpad and cdrom booting

[Stephen Clower]

Cheryl,
  I think you need to have your boot order in the laptop's BIOS set to CD-ROM, floppy, and then hard drive. That's how my laptop is configured, and the Fedora CD's started up just fine.


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On 5/21/2004 at 8:27 PM Cheryl Homiak wrote:

>I have a T23 thinkpad and some of you helped me when I was first setting
>linux up on it.
>I had thought that if a bootable cdrom was placed in the cdrom drive, the
>boot would default to that, as with the floppy. However, I just tried this
>with the first cd of the fedora cdrom set (speakup;  yarrow) and I
>got taken directly to lilo instead. can somebody kindly refresh me on
>this? Do I have to do something in the bios or is it possible that I've
>made some kind of mistake in my burning, though I can't think what that
>would be?
>Thanks.
>
>--
>Cheryl
>
>"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
>
>
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Re: (way OT) thinkpad and cdrom booting

[Glenn Ervin at Home]

With my computer, I hold down F8, on boot-up, and it sits on 3.5 floppy.
Down arrowing will select drives by drive letter, and press enter.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak@charter.net>
To: "speakup" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 8:27 PM
Subject: (way OT) thinkpad and cdrom booting


I have a T23 thinkpad and some of you helped me when I was first setting 
linux up on it.
I had thought that if a bootable cdrom was placed in the cdrom drive, the 
boot would default to that, as with the floppy. However, I just tried this 
with the first cd of the fedora cdrom set (speakup;  yarrow) and I 
got taken directly to lilo instead. can somebody kindly refresh me on 
this? Do I have to do something in the bios or is it possible that I've 
made some kind of mistake in my burning, though I can't think what that 
would be?
Thanks.

-- 
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."


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Re: (way OT) thinkpad and cdrom booting

[Cheryl Homiak]

Well, well, well!!! some computers really ARE accessible if you know what 
to do!!!
I did a little google hunting and found out that on my thinkpad f12 will 
allow you to temporarily change the boot medium. Hit or hold down (I held 
down since I wasn't sure) f12 at boot and arrow down twice and hit enter 
and--voil`a!!! You boot from cdrom!!!
thanks for the comment about F8; that's what got me thinking it might be 
possible and sent me searching.


-- 
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."