Live CD on dual boot

[Saba Moshe]

Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:47:28 -0300
From: Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Live CD on dual boot
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2009/3/24 Saba Moshe <sabamoshe at gmail.com>:
> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:11:44 -0400
> From: Dirk Freitag <unreal.linux at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Live CD on dual boot
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> Saba Moshe wrote:
>> In my computer's BIOS CD is the first in the boot order.
>>
>> I was using LiveCDs of different disros to decide which of them will I
>> install.
>>
>> Since I installed Ubuntu dual-boot with XP I lost the abilty to boot to
>> any LiveCD.
>>
>> Is there an entry I can add to the grub file to enable me to choose a
>> LiveCD boot?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Saba Moshe
>>
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--snip

Moshe


Once BIOS is set to CD first, it doesn't matter what you have in your
HD or if you even have a HD.

Does it happens with other bootable CDs you might have?

Do you have more than a single CD or DVD unit?

Have you tried setting your BIOS to none HDs?


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>>>

Thank you, Lucio, your questions lead me to the solution, now everything
works as expected.

I accumulated during the past couple of years a dozen or so LiveCDs. The
ones I tested did not boot. However, by testing more of them I found that
some boots and a few don't. By sheer misfortune those I tried before belong
to the latter.

I should have tried them in another computer before I posted my first post,
but I didn't, for which I apologize.

There is now no reason, Lucio, to set the BIOS to "none HD", but this is an
excellent idea to see if the BIOS recognizes the CD-drive or not.

Saba Moshe

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