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cannot boot off of anything except HDD
I don't even remember the reason I wanted to do a clean install initially, it doesn't even matter at this point, just want things working. I have been battling this for about 1 week now
Toshiba Satellite laptop (m45-s265) opensuse 11.2 ( I will be diving into mint once I figure this out, and payday arrives !)(linux forums didn't really help)
Boot from CD- I tried to do a clean install with my cd, that has worked many times, and yes I have since tested and boot anouther cpu off of it first try. I can take the Toshiba way, hit F10 and use the menu to have it boot from CD, Grub loads. I go into the BIOS menu, tell it from there to boot from CD, GRUB (my bootloader). it always goes to Grub. Can't boot off of CD, USB, or even floppy.
CD -ROM - is working fine. I tested it a few times. I can even open the folder and explore the contents of the opensuse CD. I can even hear it spinning up upon startup. the disk itself will boot anouther computer so I know that its not faulty either
BIOS - I have gone so far as to attempt to boot from flash drive, and my BIOS does have the FDD option to boot from.
thanks in advance