[PLUG] Knoppix

Derek Loree drl at drloree.com
Mon Apr 5 21:07:02 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 10:35, Robert Kopp wrote:
> Does anyone know why Knoppix works on some computers
> and not others? I have a desktop and a laptop, both
> set to boot from the CD drive first. On the notebook
> Knoppix boots fine, but on the desktop it always says
> "Boot failure." 

It is probably due to the CD-ROM drive.  There are a couple of different
boot schemes for CD's, some drives don't recognize all of them, CD
readers are fairly inexpensive, or borrow one as a test.

Good Luck,

Derek Loree






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