Hello Folks,

The last few weeks I have a problem with bootable cdroms.
My current distribution is Mandrake 9.2, but I like to test around with some other distribs as well.
So, I downloaded iso-files and wrote them onto a cdrom.

And then the problem arises: the newer versions do not boot, I get a failure message.
With the same bios-settings my older cdrom with 9.2 still boots perfectly.
My cdrom is set as secondary master.

Things become strange: I took the newer cdrom (Redhat 9) to a friend and asked him to try it. Oops, it booted perfectly! Now this tells me that this problem is not caused by the burning-program.
So it must be something with my hardware.

My mainboard is an ASUS P2B-F, with Award bios version 1013A.
Does anybody know about a newer bios-version that could solve this booting-failure?

Thnx for all replies,

Schmurff

If your iso's are from Mdk 10.0, you have to boot on the disk 2, then replace it with the disk 1 when asked.

that depends on your hardware niamor. I can install off cd1.

I can only guess that you have something wrong in the bios schmurff

Hi,

Are you sure your BIOS isn't set to give booting from the HD higher priority than CDs? That's what I did when I had this problem. Anyway, check out http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/, it should help.
- Imek

Niamor is right! Thnx!
But of course it is logical to boot with disk 2???
There's a whole lotta bugs in Mdk10!!!

Schmurff