On 2011/03/17 13:51 (GMT-0700) Tony Alfrey composed:

This may be more of a hardware question than software; please let me know what you think.

I have a dual boot box with Windows on an IDE drive and a pair of SATA drives w/ linux, SuSE and Fedora.

Dual means exactly two. You have a multiboot system.

Windows boots, the SATA drives will not, and I cannot get SuSE ( I have old 9.1) to boot from the CD. It says after going through many things,

"Starting hardware detection . . Activating usb devices . . . done Searching for infofile

and it hangs there.

Also, if I try to go through the steps to do an installation, it gets to YAST and spins.

It is possible that my SATA controller has died?

More likely the CD drive has flaked out or needs cleaning.

If I unplug the SATA contoller, should the system be able to boot from the CD?

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