From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2012-09-18, Doug Laidlaw  wrote:   
   > I tried to boot one of the Mandriva 2012 ISOs today, but my BIOS didn't even   
   > see it.  I was about to blame the DVD or the release, when Fedora 16 did   
   > exactly the same thing.   
      
   It would probably be good to say what you mean when you say "I tried to   
   boot one of the ...ISOs today". EXactly what did you do?   
   Your meation of dvd suggests that you did not boot the iso but rather   
   tried to boot from the dvd. How did you write the iso to the dvd?   
   If you mount that dvd what do you see? and iso file or a whole bunch of   
   files?   
      
   >   
   > The Fedora forum suggested that my BIOS is out of date.  Something called   
   EFI.   
   > I downloaded the latest update for my BIOS, but it made no difference.  The   
   > guy who started the thread asked: "Does that mean I have to go out and buy a   
   > new computer?"  The reply was: "Not for this one issue."  What else can he   
   do,   
   > except change his distro?  I need to stop fiddling and stick with Mageia.   
   > No doubt the same thing will happen there and everywhere, eventually.   
      
   Or perhaps someone could suggest a cure for this disease which you have   
   not adequatly described.   
      
   How old is your computer. 1, 10 30 years old? Has it been able to boot   
   from dvd in the past?   
   Perhaps you might want to install the installation disk onto cd and boot   
   from that with the distro being on your hard drive?   
      
   >   
   > Doug.   
      
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