DVD-ROM Booting not working

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: DVD-ROM Booting not working
started by: sankarv

Posted by sankarv on July 25 2006,06:58

I got a new machine and tried to boot the Live CD of DSL.

My CPU is AMD 2600 1.6 Ghz 64 bit with ASUS mother board.

My DVD-ROM drive is currently detected as secondary master.

My Hard Disk is SATA.

The DVD ROM drive is only used for CD RW and DVD Read.

I have Windows XP already installed.

Currently no device is detected as primary master or slave.

i am unable to boot the DVD ROM.

I even set first boot device in BIOS as DVD ROM.

Still it is going into windows XP and not detecting the Live CD.

Please help.

Posted by kerry on July 25 2006,07:26

Did you set the jumpers on the hd and the dvdrom? set the hd as the master and the dvdrom as the slave using the pins.

Posted by sankarv on July 25 2006,09:35

what are jumpers? i dint know much abt hardware.
as i know there are two ports in mother board one blue and other black in color. here in the black port my DVDROM is connected. In the mother board there is a seperate point for connecting SATA harddisk other than these ports.

DVD ROM is acting as secondary master.

hard disk is not detected as primary/secondary master/slave

how can i set pins/port as master/slave?

Posted by kerry on July 25 2006,10:14

geez, pull the hard drive out and look at it,there should be a picture on it that tells you were to move the jumper to to make it a master,slave,or cable select. the cdrom should have the same thing so you can set it as a slave.

Posted by Del on July 25 2006,19:07

Seems I've heard (correct me if I'm wrong) that DSL doesn't yet handle SATA?

Anyway, the blue and black ide connectors should also be labeled, screen printing on the mobo itself, 1 and 2 (maybe 0 and 1, but probably not). Try pluggin the DVD in as primary master then if there's no other drives plugged in ide (which I take to be the case, since your hdd is SATA).

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 25 2006,19:24

DSL might handle SATA. (scsi modules were separated out I believe)

The easiest way to see if they are properly connected is to just open your CMOS Setup, or even POST might say which drives are connected.

Posted by sankarv on July 26 2006,03:44

thankx guys for the help i solved the problem and now its booting the CD fine.