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Hi i had a copy of ubandu6.06 frm ma friend but itz not booting up in ma system

Asked by Bharath

i have tried to boot ubundu without installing first then i restarted ma system but the cd is not bootin itz goin for win Xp. How come the cd drive is reading but not bootin Ubundu. How to setup this prob

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Deepak Mishra (dpux) said : 		#1

have you setup the booting priority for the cd-drive from the bios ?

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Bharath (bharathanabp) said : 		#2

how to do it

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Bharath (bharathanabp) said : 		#3

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:02 AM, bharathan abp <email address hidden>wrote:

> how to do it
>
i had entered the bios settings and given it auto but not bootin

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Trygve Vea (trygve-vea-gmail) said : 		#4

Hi

If the CD is intact, it should boot if the settings in the BIOS are correct. You need to set the CD/DVD-drive to have a higher boot-priority than the harddrive.

This may give you the answer you're looking for: http://www.hiren.info/pages/bios-boot-cdrom

I hope this helps :)
Regards, Trygve

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