[Ham-Linux] Unable to boot Linux CDs

[Ron Youvan]

>    Anyone have any idea why most of my Linux CDs will not boot on my new 
> computer?

>    The computer is a Gateway Core 2 Duo, running at 2.0 Ghz each 
> processor, and has 2G of RAM.

>    I have PSKMail, Harv's Hamshack Hack, Puppy, and a few others. All of 
> them worked fine with my old computer, but Ubuntu is the only one I have 
> now that will boot completely. The rest either give a message that a 
> file can't be found (i.e., "Puppy not found on boot CD"), or they simply 
> hang up during the boot process.

>    The only difference I can see with this computer is the Core 2 Duo 
> processor, and the fact that it has a SATA hard drive and not IDE. I 
> think the CD drive is IDE.

>    Very confused as to why all these CDs suddenly have problems.

   I had the same problem with a Gateway (Intel mommy board and BIOS)
using Slackware 12, while version 11 booted just fine. (as did Ver. 9)
   I had to set the first boot device as the CDROM and the second boot
device as the floppy.  (the CD contains an image of a floppy)
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