(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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