Dianne,
You may want to try disconnecting the cd-rw drive and leaving only
the cd-rom as secondary master, there may be a conflict between the two
drives. If that works, check the device jumper settings on the two drives
and make sure that they are not both trying to claim the "master" setting,
Jonathan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake
> 9.0
>
>
> On Thursday 06 March 2003 01:05 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:50, Diane Arsenault wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > No - I can't boot from any Cd at all. So I don't think
> the actual Cd is
> > > the problem - I think it's to do with the Master Boot
> Record??? Just a
> > > stab in the dark, mind you! Any help at all is very much
> appreciated at
> > > this point.
> > >
> > > Diane
> >
> > No Diane. You only get to the hard drive MBR after bypassing the CD
> > bootup step. But if you can't boot from *any* bootable CD, no matter
> > whether it is Windows or Linux, then something is wrong with the
> > hardware (assuming that the BIOS is correctly set up).
> >
> > Given that it is a new computer, I would take it back to
> the store and
> > ask for another one. Carry the Windows and Mandrake boot CDs to show
> > them the problem.
> >
> > Good luck!
> of course we could teach you how to do it from booting with a
> boot disk you
> can create from the CDroms,,, if we want, and if you can boot
> up from a cdrom
>
>
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