On 7/17/05, H Q <ecomeasurement@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I burned the ISO images to CD, and they worked on my newer machine, but the > old Gateway would not read them off its CD-ROM drive. I tried making the > boot diskette (changing the boot sequence accordingly), but that wouldn't > work on either machine ("boot failed") > > I tried changing the default boot sequence on the Gateway to an external RW > CD drive, but none of the options in the BIOS seemed to refer to the > external drive. I tried FLOPTICAL, SCSI device, with no luck. > > The CD-ROM on the Gateway *did* read the ISO boot from a previous FreeBSD > distribution, and still does, so it may not be the drive itself. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > H. > Have you tried using different media (gold vs silver colored disc or different brand/manufacturer) and burning the image at a lower speed (4X)?