won't boot off iso cd

[Edward Dekkers]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> 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

Just to chime in here...maybe running a bootmanager floppy might work? I 
know I've had to do this in the past. I don't have the URL on hand, but 
it's a sourceforge project...google should turn it up.

Regards,
Ed.
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