On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:26:19AM -0400, Carl Heyendal wrote: > I'm trying to boot a Fedora 10 Live CD from an 'older' PC that I want to > use as a Linux platform, but it just won't detect the CD after a restart. > > I verified that the PC can detect and boot from a Windows installation CD, > so I know it's not something broken in the PC. I also verified that the > Live CD is bootable on my 'newer' PC. > > I snooped around the bios, but nothing is obvious there either. I even > forced it to boot from the CD drive only, with no luck. > > Any ideas? How old? I have Debian Lenny on a P200 with 64mb ram (kernel 2.6.26-1-486, wireless USB dongle, no X). I've been messing around with some junker PC's lately and am not sure if I installed directly to this machine or moved the hard drive over from another one. I just checked and was able to boot into rescue mode using the Lenny businesscard netinst iso (RW). I may not have been able to boot the regular netinst iso from testing, but I'd have to re-burn it to check. If you have a floppy drive you could try SBM to boot the CD. I don't know anything about Fedora, but if you can install anything on the hard drive, even FreeDOS, you may be able to install Fedora without booting the CD. Regards, Howard E.