Ah. i figured it out last night, late at 12:00 a.m i used the smart boot manager from the slackware boot disk dir. it booted fine/ on8/3/2005Gregory Nowak said -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've found that sbm ironically will boot from cd on newer bioses that support booting from cd-rom, but that have this feature disabled. On the other hand, I have not yet gotten sbm to boot from cd-rom on machines that don't support booting from the cd at all in the bios. Greg On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 05:45:40PM +0400, Sergei V. Fleytin wrote: > Hi! > > I am not sure if it will be of any help to you. But there exists a > boot manager called 'sbm' (smart boot manager). It's available as a > debian packages. This boot manager allows to choose the media to boot > from, including cdrom. I myself have no experience with it but perhaps > you will find it useful. > > > -- > With best regards, Sergei. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > !DSPAM:42f0cd8c75971992313246! > > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC8PRs7s9z/XlyUyARAjaSAKCUzMI7xnzSrz1YkcgthpeaqO9GFQCgtySi BM7V0oLiCfOk8zCrnZjFeAg= =XxmT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Farhan contact info. Aim: and stoof msn: i.am.Farhan at gmail.com Jabber: Farhan at jabber.org