won't boot off iso cd

[Mike McCarty]

Anne Ramey wrote:
> 
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> Anne Ramey wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, BIOS is set to boot of CD.  It asks me to choose another boot 
>>> method or insert bootable media.  As I mentioned, it just doesn't 
>>> work for 64 bit iso, a friend's 386 iso boots, but doesn't allow me 
>>> to rescue the system because of the incompatibility.  This same 64 
>>> bit iso disk rescued my other 64 bit system.  I even made another 
>>> copy, thinking it had somehow turned into a coaster in between 
>>> systems.  No luck.
>>>
>>> Anne
>>>
>> When you say you made another copy, do you mean you duplicated
>> the disc? If so, and it has a problem, then so will the duplicate.
>> If you started from another ISO image and burnt a new CD from
>> that, then that would be an entirely different matter.
>>
>> Mike
> 
> 
>  I mean I downloaded another copy of the iso and burned a new disk of 
> the same thing.
> 
> Anne
> 

Then you have some problem with either:

	BIOS settings (but you say you've checked)
	BIOS ROM (old version, corrupted FLASH, etc.)
	CDROM drive (have you tried swapping it out?)
	cables
	kernel can't recognize it's on a 64 bit machine
	something else

Mike
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