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Originally posted by hunk420
it is booting from cd already but after it finds mscd driver and my hard drives it goes to a prompt that looks something like this DR-DOS[A:>]. It gives me four current selections like {lend=on} there are three morebut can't remember what they are.
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AFAIK, there are no MSCD driver or DR-DOS on the Knoppix-CD. If they are loaded, you are not booting from CD.
The first thing you should see when starting from the Knoppix-CD is the prompt:
Here you can enter additional boot options. After a few seconds without any input it automatically continues.
Then you should see the line
Code:
Loading linux ...........
So, I still think that you have to check your BIOS settings to verify the boot sequence.
The boot sequence determines in which order the boot devices (floppy, hard drive, CD, USB stick) are checked.
If you have a floppy inserted in to the floppy drive and a CD into the CD drive AND the floppy is first in the boot sequence AND there is a
system on the floppy, then the CD is not checked and the boot process will continue from the floppy.
In order to change this order, access your BIOS (by pressing <DEL> repeatedly early in the boot process). When the BIOS screen opens look for an option named "boot sequence" or "1. boot device, 2. boot device, etc." . Change the sequence in a way that the CD is first (don't forget that the hard drive (C, usually) is present somewhere in the sequence as well).
Save the BIOS setting, reboot and try again.
If you find the "boot sequence" option, but there is no option for the CDROM, then you have a
very very old computer, which is not able to boot from CD - but this unlikely unless you really use a vintage model :-)
I think there is a way to create a boot
floppy which then starts the CDROM, but this is for the vintage computers and not necessary in most cases.
So, try to locate the "boot sequence" option in the BIOS.
Mike