Other Help Topics :: Boot from CDROM

I have a Pentium I - 150 MHz, 40 MB RAM box cleanly wiped that I want to install damnsmalllinux onto. The CDROM is ATAPI and I've set BIOS to boot from CDROM, but it keeps telling me:

Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM : Failure ...
Missing operating system

What's going on? Please help if you can, and thanks ahead of time for your time and effort.

Oh, I forgot; the CDROM that I burned the ISO image onto has no problem because I tried it on my newer Dell box (1.8 GHz, 256 MB RAM) and it worked perfectly.

You did burn the ISO correctly and not just copy it to the CD?

It looks like your older PC is ignoring the CD and trying to boot from the HD, and so cannot find an OS. Does that CD drive work? Is it connected correctly? Can it read the media your trying to use?

Unfortunately, the older box is cleanly wiped, so I can't tell if the CD drive is operational. However, I do know that the CDROM with the operating system image is fully functional because I tested it on my other computer (see post above) and it worked flawlessly.

In some cases , older cdrom's had problems with cd's that were burned.
There was also a problem with some facturer of cd's because the laser of the old cdrom was to heavy an it looked throug the cd, so it didn't read on it.

perhaps you can try booting a black-cd

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