5.2.1 boot fails; "Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor"

[Nicolai E M Plum]

Jon Noack writes:
> Nicolai E M Plum writes:
> > Booting from CD gives me:
> > ----
> > [other messages from the BIOS]
> > CD Loader 1.01
> >
> > Building the boot loader arguments
> > Read Error: 0x01
> > Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor
> > ----

> The 5.x bootable install CDs no longer use floppy-emulation mode.  The 
> change was made because some newer machines do not support this 
> emulation mode.  However, older machines may not be able to boot CDs in 
> "native" (non-emulation) mode.  We can't support everybody, so we 
> support the new machines.

Ah, fair enough; I can understand that.
 
> In many cases a BIOS update will fix this, so you might check for that.

Will do.

And now there's an archived answer to search for in the mailing lists :)
Perhaps a document maintainer could add it to the Handbook as a gotcha. 

Thanks

Nicolai