On Thursday 23 April 2009 04:03:02 pm Jim Henderson wrote:
Maybe a dumb question, but have you checked the boot sequence in the BIOS to make sure that the DVD drive is set to be the boot device before the hard drive, or have you tried using a temporary boot menu (whatever it's called on that laptop) to select the drive as a boot device for a single boot?
That's not a dumb question, but yes I checked that several times. I have concluded that I had two bad dvd downloads . 2 separate iso files of two separate programs downloaded at different times. I was able to copy a bootable dvd using k3b and so downloaded another copy of Knoppix from another mirror. Just burned it and the dvd boots on both this and another laptop. I checked the md5 sums on the two non bootable ones and it's correct. Guess this problem is mainly multiple errors on my part. Thanks still for the help. It got me looking at things I hadnt thought about. Richard. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org