Austin Godber wrote:

> Carl Parrish wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the response Austin. It doesn't say a thing just takes a 
>> little longer to boot then boots into WinME. I'm checking the 
>> Knoppix.net site now but so far doesn't seem to be anything specific 
>> to this laptop.
>
>
> So you don't even get the Knoppix Splash screen?  Can it boot of of 
> ANY CD?
>
> Austin
>
Nope can't boot from any screen. I called the gateway tech support and 
they informed me that there is a key to "force" the BIOS to boot from 
CD-ROM (I'm guessing they've had this problem before) The answer they 
gave me was to hold down the Esc key (F2 gave me the BIOS  settings) 
when I did that I did infact get a new menu which asked what did I want 
to boot from I selected the CD-ROM and then it attempts to boot, but 
WinME comes up in safe mode. I've tested the CD on other computers. I've 
made sure the cd drive actually works. So far I can't boot anything from 
CD-ROM (I'm temped to try to find a Win2K or XP disk and test that).