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OT: CD or Floppy won't boot
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Posted by: daystrom

OK, I am stumped. I burned the ISO cd image with all those great tools on my computer at work and verified it was bootable (and it was). I bring it home and boot it on my computer and it fails....'Booting ATAPI device..FAILED' is what I get. So I make a bootable floppy with the tools and it gets stuck in a loop at boot.

This is what I have checked:

The BIOS is set to boot the cd first
I've tried unhooking everything from both IDE buses except for the CD and it still won't boot
My PC WILL boot DOS/Windows based CD's, it chokes on Linux bootable CD's!
I made another copy of the boot CD on my burner with the same problems.
I've tried 2 cdrom drives, same problem!

Has anyone ever had trouble booting Linux CD's? It's almost like my PC doesn't know what to do with it. I've verified this with a bootable RedHat and Slackware CD I have. Boots fine on all other PC's except mine. My PC has no problem booting DOS/Windows CD's though! What am I missing?

Homebuilt PIII 1.0 GHz, 256 MB Ram

Todd
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Posted by: Robert S

If you're using MFS Tools 2.0, any Linux install will do - you don't have to limit yourself to TiVo boot disks. Can you boot DOS floppies on this machine? What about Tom's Root and Boot Disk?

It looks to me more like your PC doesn't like Linux rather than a boot problem, but I don't know why a generic PC wouldn't run Linux.

Posted by: lew

Try this versiion http://www.tyger.org/MFS/2.0/mfstools2noJ.iso

Posted by: daystrom

http://www.tyger.org/MFS/2.0/mfstools2noJ.iso worked. What is the difference?

Todd

Posted by: Robert S

It's the same disk but burned without support for the MS Joliet extentions to ISO 9660. This is a known problem for some PC's. You boot problems sounded so weird that I didn't think to direct you to it straight away.