Booting Problem

[Mario Lobo]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
Doug Hardie <bc979 at lafn.org> wrote:

> I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on.  The
> bios will not boot from USB stick.  I am using an external CD drive.
> It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader
> message with revision 1.1.  Then it puts out the machine, date, time
> the CD was created and starts the spinner.  It spins around about 2
> times and stops.  The system continues to read from the drive for
> another couple minutes.  Then everything stops.  Nothing more happens.
> 
> The CD is good.  I can boot it just fine using the same external
> drive on another machine.  While I could remove the drive and
> temporarily mount in in the working machine and build it there, I
> would like to find a way to successfully boot from CD.  This will
> become a remote machine and taking it apart later is not a viable
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Can you boot a different OS (Win, Ububtu, gparted, etc ...) from the
same drive on the same machine?

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Mario Lobo
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