Boot from DVD (bios setting)

I’ve been trying to install Fedora from DVD but couldn’t get the machine to read the DVD when it booted. I kept thinking it was a BIOS setting I had wrong (I could only choose ‘CD’ as a boot option). Eventually, I tried a bootable CD and that wouldn’t work either. The problem all along was that I had the DVD set as ‘cable select’ (and it selected itself as slave which may not have helped). When I changed the jumper to ‘Master’ I could boot from CD’s and DVD’s. I never found the answer when googling so I post this here in case it helps someone else.


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  1. Steven Morrison

    THe bot from CD rom option is in the older bios before DVD roms become popular most newwer system have the boot from CD/DVDrom options even though you cannot select DVD it will still read any disk in the drive but you usually have to select the IDE<#> if cable select is selected

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