I have old information on this, but supposedly the EFI boot manager should automatically scan for bootable devices prior to presenting you with the boot menu. Assuming you used the same DVD on both systems and one lists the DVD at bootable and one does not, I would surmise that the problem may lie with the DVD player itself of the system that does not list the DVD as bootable when the Installation DVD is installed.
Last edited by rwuerth; 10-25-2012 at 03:51 PM..
Reason: clarified where I meant DVD player.
If you select the EFI shell, check the output of "map -r". If you do not see a CDROM or DVD there, then there is probably something wrong with the DVD hardware.
Hi,
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Hello,
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Hi all,
thanks for so many helps in many problems!
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