More Knoppix Questions

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