[Ham-Linux] Unable to boot Linux CDs

[Mike McCarthy, W1NR]

Are you using the latest distributions?  SATA drives never worked quite
right on earlier distributions, even up to a year ago.  There may be
something else on the motherboard that needs a later driver as well. 
Try downloading the latest and greatest and see if that makes a difference.

Another problem might be the CD drive microcode.  I had a Sony drive
that would not boot ANY version of Linux until I downloaded and updated
the drive microcode with a newer version.  Unfourtunately, it was
several months after I bought the drive that they released a working
version of microcode for it.

Lastly, be sure the CD's are good.

Mike, W1NR

Dave 'Doc' Corio wrote:
>    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.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Dave
> KB3MOW
>