Weird booting problem.

[poiuy09876]

Problem: 1 of my computers can not find the bt4-r1.iso DVD.
Error: "No booable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility"

setup:
Laptop DELL Latitude D610 with BIOS Revision A03 and no OS installed

Have checked:
md5 is correct
dvd is 1 in bootorder in BIOS
the DVD works in another PC perfectly
reburned the ISO 2 times same result
Booted Ubuntu live cd on the laptop and it works.
Searched the web and found that with the same laptop others have run bt4 with USB and it worked, havent found anyone talking about live DVD though.


So any tips on what could be wrong ? i might have missed something as i just go up but any help is welcome.

[Snayler]

For some computers, although they have a CD&DVD drive and the ability to boot from CD, can't boot from a DVD. I have one and had to use an alternate method to install BT4 into it's disk. I created 2 tutorials for people in the same situation, but one of it's pre-requisites is to have windows installed. After following the tutorial, you can delete the Windows partition and resize your BT4 partition. Here are the tutorials:

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...rkstation.html
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...irtualbox.html

[poiuy09876]

Thank you for replying and having taken the time to create tutorials.
I will try them out, just have to dig out a windows cd from the trash

For some computers, although they have a CD&DVD drive and the ability to boot from CD, can't boot from a DVD. I have one and had to use an alternate method to install BT4 into it's disk. I created 2 tutorials for people in the same situation, but one of it's pre-requisites is to have windows installed. After following the tutorial, you can delete the Windows partition and resize your BT4 partition. Here are the tutorials:

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...rkstation.html
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...irtualbox.html