mlist@safenet-inc.com wrote:
The default loader screen on the CD looks a lot like the default loader screen of installed SUSE - that pretty blue screen with four or five selections in the middle...
If you aren't paying attention, you could imagine you're looking at the usual installed-SUSE startup selection screen.
Actually I was trying to boot a live cd of pclinuxos. I will have to assume the problem was as Anders Johansson states: "This happens with disturbing frequency on my machine, the BIOS often doesn't detect a CD or DVD in the player and jumps to the harddisk directly. It's either a BIOS bug or a problem with my DVD player..." It just seemed strange at the time that the boot from CD occurred as soon as I told SuSE to "turn off the computer". Thanks for all who responded. Terry -- SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) -- 2.6.13-15.12-default -- Sun 10/01/06 4:05pm up 19:58, 4 users, load average: 0.31, 0.37, 0.47