Failure to boot install-disk from SCSI CD-ROM drive.

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Not with Mandrake, but I have a SCSI CD-ROM on my desktop system, and have 
never been able to get it to boot from CD. It is a more modern system than 
yours. I create the appropriate boot floppies. I use SuSE Linux, but you 
should be able to create boot floppies from your Mandrake distro.
John Aspinall wrote:
> I'm trying to do a Mandrake 9.0 install from CD.  The machine in question is 
> an old Pentium 1 with two disks and a CD-ROM drive, all on its SCSI chain.  T
> he SCSI diagnostics check out ok, and the machine will boot Windows without a
>  problem.  The CD itself
> works to boot on a different machine.  I set the CD-ROM drive first in the pr
> eferred boot order with the BIOS.
> 
> I'm guessing here, but it looks like the boot loader loads ok.  But then I ge
> t the following:
> 
> ISOLINUX 1.76  Mandrake Linux isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying to
>  wing it...
> isolinux: Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed.
> 
> The obvious question: can anyone shed light here?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
>  John Aspinall
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