On Jul 8, 2006, at 4:53 PM, pssl at nb.sympatico.ca wrote: > it wont boot on a x6da8-g2 server board not at all wirth a new dvd > writer/reader/cdrom,why? Because that's not an Itanium-based motherboard. You can boot i386 or amd64 on that board, not ia64. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel at xcllnt.net