Hello,
I'm attempting to do a boot install of SuSE 9.1, but am not having any luck. I tested the CD (burnt from ISO from suse.com) on two other comps and they both load up fine, so I know the problem isn't the CD.
On this device (Sony U50 handtop), there are no internal devices, only a hard drive and one usb port. However, when I put it into it's dock, I have access to a FireWire port, and I am using a Sony DDU-1621 Internal FireWire drive with an external enclosure for this drive, so it's going from the external DVD-ROM to the dock. In BIOS, I've set i.Link bootable = enabled. i.Link is sony's name for IEEE 1394 (FW), and changed the boot order so that optical drive is first then HD, floppy, network.
However, when I boot up, it just goes straight into XP instead of booting from the CD. I tried pressing escape to do a manual select of which device to boot but it does the same thing. I've read that this drive is capable of being booted from, but I'm not 100% certain, it's a bit hard to find this sort of info.
Can anyone make any suggestions? Is there a way to determine if the drive is bootable? A spec somewhere in sysinfo? Any other suggestions? I can't boot from USB because that's not an option in BIOS, only i.Link and network bootable.
Thank you for any suggestions
I'm attempting to do a boot install of SuSE 9.1, but am not having any luck. I tested the CD (burnt from ISO from suse.com) on two other comps and they both load up fine, so I know the problem isn't the CD.
On this device (Sony U50 handtop), there are no internal devices, only a hard drive and one usb port. However, when I put it into it's dock, I have access to a FireWire port, and I am using a Sony DDU-1621 Internal FireWire drive with an external enclosure for this drive, so it's going from the external DVD-ROM to the dock. In BIOS, I've set i.Link bootable = enabled. i.Link is sony's name for IEEE 1394 (FW), and changed the boot order so that optical drive is first then HD, floppy, network.
However, when I boot up, it just goes straight into XP instead of booting from the CD. I tried pressing escape to do a manual select of which device to boot but it does the same thing. I've read that this drive is capable of being booted from, but I'm not 100% certain, it's a bit hard to find this sort of info.
Can anyone make any suggestions? Is there a way to determine if the drive is bootable? A spec somewhere in sysinfo? Any other suggestions? I can't boot from USB because that's not an option in BIOS, only i.Link and network bootable.
Thank you for any suggestions