[TriLUG] strange boot problem

[Merle Watts]

-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Merle Watts <elremx2 at earthlink.net>
Sent: Mar 23, 2004 12:49 PM
To: Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] strange boot problem

It's not the bios

One mb is a shuttle ak35gt2   It has had the latest bios update and it has had a complete install of both mandrake 9.2 and fedora from the dvd this year.   installed fedora about 3 weeks ago from the dvd

has also had mandrake 9.0,  9.1,  and 9,2  installed from the cd rom bootiing from cd..    Has both  dvdrw and a cdrw dives installed.

The other board was just purchased to replace a dead ECS board.  Got a syntax board from tiger.  Seems to work ok

I put in the hard drive with fedora already installed from the other computer.  made changes for hardware and it seems to work fine.  

But,  neither computer will boot from the disks.

All disks have been used for install on the shuttle board except for the mandrake 10cd's
Neither computer will boot from the cd's or the dvd's
Both will still boot from the winxp and knoppix cd,
they will not boot from the win me cd eiither


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com>
Sent: Mar 23, 2004 12:33 PM
To: Merle Watts <elremx2 at earthlink.net>, 
	Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] strange boot problem

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.