Booting off CD on Gateway Solo 9100
 

I'm not quite sure if I put this in the right forum, I'm sorry if I didn't.

I've been trying to install Linux on a stone-age Gateway Solo 9100. The previous owner of the laptop gave me two drives to go with it: a Gateway DVD/120MB SuperDisk drive, and a less-powerful FDD/CD-ROM drive. I've tried both of them, and I've fiddled around with the BIOS, but the laptop just won't just boot off a Linux disk. I've tried a Kubuntu disk and a SUSE 10 DVD, neither of them work on either of the drives. What's going on? Is this a known bug that I can do something about?

Yep, some BIOS's and/or some CD drives (the firmware) are not capable of booting non-floppy emulation CD's. The workaround is to use something like;

http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm

Thanks so much! It worked! Booted off of the CD drive and am installing Linux right now . . .