A Damn Small Problem

[ImNeat]

DSL isn't booting - the computer just goes straight through to windows, as if the DSL CD isn't in the drive. Knoppix boots fine - but this computer isn't powerful enough for it.

1.) I know BIOS is set to boot from CD
2.) The computer boots fine, as it booted knoppix
3.) It's DSL 2.1 so it's not extremely outdated
4.) I know the CD is fine because it boots perfectly on my Dell Desktop.

Any ideas as to what could be going wrong?

[void_false]

DSL isn't booting - the computer just goes straight through to windows, as if the DSL CD isn't in the drive. Knoppix boots fine - but this computer isn't powerful enough for it.

1.) I know BIOS is set to boot from CD
2.) The computer boots fine, as it booted knoppix
3.) It's DSL 2.1 so it's not extremely outdated
4.) I know the CD is fine because it boots perfectly on my Dell Desktop.

Any ideas as to what could be going wrong?

Very strange. Don't know what to tell. Maybe try making boot floppies?
Or disable HD in BIOS and watch what happens then.

[mr.MikyMaus]

Have you tried different media? Like CD-R instead of CDRW,
or standart size media instead of 8cm one? This may (and
probably will) be a hardware or bios problem...

-M.

[ImNeat]

That's what a few people have suggested. But if it were a media problem why would Knoppix work fine but not DSL? They were both burned thru the same program onto similar media [memorex cd-r 700mb]