OK, I'm trying to install Slackware 11 on a used computer that I just picked up. I had it running on another computer before this one, but as far as I can tell the motherboard fried on it, but I digress.
So this is what is happening; I set my BIOS to boot from the CD-ROM drive and throw Slackware 11 Disc 1 into the drive, power up the machine, and it gets to the point where its reading the CD and it says:
Boot Failure
Reboot and Select proper Boot device
Or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device
Press any key when ready
Since I have 2 other working computers I decided I would test the CD in them to see if they would boot it. They did without a problem. So just for kicks I burned 2 more copies of the CD, one I downloaded from the website, and one I had the image on my computer already. Neither of those worked in the newly purchased used computer that I want to install Slack 11 on. But once again they worked fine in the other 2 machines. So I threw an XP disc in the drive on the newly purchased used computer, and it booted that just fine. Next I tried a different CD-ROM drive, since I had one from the computer that had died on me. I threw it in there, tossed in the Slackware 11 CD 1 and fired it up, and it still says Boot Failure. Its like there's no Disc in the drive or something. Even though that disc boots fine on 2 other machines, and booted with the very CD-ROM drive that is in the newly purchased used machine, in a prior machine. WTF is going on here? Can anyone help?
The computer specs for the one that I'm trying to install linux on are as follows:
(Its a Dell)
600mhz Intel Pentium III
256 megs PC100 RAM
Not sure what the mobo specs are but its a Dell
I've tried 2 different CD-ROM drives one Sony and one LG
Anything else you want to know ask. Please help this is totally FUBAR