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Can't boot from CD on IBM machines

Asked by Bill Neilson

I am unable to boot from the CD on any IBM machine. When I use other brand computers, they boot up fine, it's only on IBM computers that the CD doesn't work. I tried to read the CD on 3 IBM machines and the CD appears to be blank. When I look at it with any other computer, I can read the CD with no problem. Is there something unique about IBM machines that prevent them from reading the CD?

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

Is it just that the IBM machines will not boot from the CD, but go direct to the hard disk and boot from that?

If there is already an operating system installed can you boot to that and read the CD on an IBM machine?

Is there a BIOS option to boot from CD which has not been enabled?

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Bill Neilson (neilson-goldrush) said : 		#2

I have changed the BIOS to boot from the CD and I get the message "No operating system found". When I attempt to open the CD with Microsoft Explorer, It doesn't show any files or folders on the CD, but when I put the CD in a non-IBM machine, all the files are visible.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#3

That's a bit special. Can you boot non-ubuntu CDs in those IBM machines?

Did you burn the Ubuntu CDs yourself or were they "official" ones from Shipit/Canonical?

In windows explorer it shows no files, it doesn't say "insert disk" or something? It actually shows a blank disc?

These aren't PowerPC versions of the Ubuntu CD are they? They are i386?

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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) said : 		#4

Can you tell us the model numbers of the machines?
Also have you tried an external USB CD drive to see if it does the same thing?

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