Hi all,

I'll make this very short: somebody downloaded for me a couple of ISOs (Linux and OpenBSD), both bootable and burned them for me. The thing is that they don't boot on my pc (p200+, AMI BIOS, Mitsumi 48x CD-ROM) (BIOS says "Searching for bootable CD-ROm...Not Found" or something similar).

Tried the same CD on a newer pc (dual bios stuff) and, of course, it worked :confused: ... Does anybody have any ideea of how to make the CD boot on my computer? (directly from the bios, no third party software, 'cause I have a floppy which can boot the CD...)

PS: The CD didn't work on my friend's computer either (the one who burned the image for me) (AMI BIOS, Celeron 300MHz, Teac CD-Writer)...

first you should check and see if the Cd's are indeed bottable. ISO buster which is freeware will show if it is a bootable disk.

http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster/

Yes, the CD is bootable, I've checked it with Nero InfoTool.exe. And I could boot from it using a floppy with a boot manager on it (if i'm not mistaking httP://btmgr.sourceforge.net), so I think it's a BIOS problem of some sort...