On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 20:20, Carl Parrish wrote:
> 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).
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if it's an older laptop, it might not like CD-R discs

Craig