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)?
