On 12/6/05, Leo Mauler <webgiant@yahoo.com> wrote:

--- Jon Pruente <jdpruente@gmail.com> wrote:
Absolutely true, can't boot some of the newer LiveCDs
which don't have boot floppies anymore.

D*mnSmallLinux only works on some of them when you use
the syslinux version.

I've also had luck with using SBM ( http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html ) to get older machines to boot from CD-ROM. You need either an SBM boot floppy or to install SMB to the MBR. It wouldn't work with an original 2x CD-ROM in a Toshiba Sat.Pro laptop, but did work in the same madchine with a 4x module, so it isn't always the BIOS that causes the troubles, too.