[TriLUG] strange boot problem

[Jeremy Portzer]

How old a computer is this?  Have you checked to see if there are any
BIOS updates available?  It's possible that older BIOSes don't like the
methods that certain CDs are using to boot.  I think that at one point
Linux vendors switched from the "El Torito" boot method (which involves
a 1.44 floppy image and fools the BIOS into thinking it's booting from a
floppy), to the "ISOLinux" boot method, which doesn't have the 1.44 MB
limitation and works differently.  Perhaps the working CDs (Knoppix,
Windows XP) are still using El Torito?

--Jeremy

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 11:10, Merle Watts wrote:
> tying to boot a computer from cd or dvd.   It will boot from a windows xp cd and a knoppix cd.  will not boot from a manfrake 10 cd, mandake 
> 9.2 dvd, or a fedora dvd.
> 
> this is happening on 2 different computers
> I get an error that says to put in a system disk
> 
> one of the computers has had an install of mandrake 9.2 and fedora using the dvd's  that will not currentl boot.
> I am writing thiis on the one that is running fedora that was installed from the dvd about 3 weeks ago
> 
> all of the above disks will boot fine in my laptop.
>   
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