cd roms causing boot prompt to not display?

[Stephen Clower]

Hank,
  Try updating your BIOS if possible. Also ensure that you're set to boot from the CD drive before floppy or hard disk.


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On 3/5/2004 at 8:42 PM hank wrote:

>hello is it possible fore cd roms older cd roms especially not to display
>the boot prompt?
>if so would a new cd rom fix this?
>I am trying to get dibian on my amd 233 pc and the boot prompt doesn't
>come up
>I get the same thing on slackware, and on fidora.
>it just proceeds to the keyboard layout
>thanks
>hank
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