[Sussex] Bloody Distros (again!)/knoppix downloads

[Dominic Humphries]

> Dominic
> Have you checked that you BOIS is configured to boot from CDROM 
before HDD?

Many times

> Maybe Slackware is checking for a Slackware rescure CD as part of 
it's boot
> sequence and doing something different - you're not really booting 
from the
> CDROM.

Possibly, but since it goes into the Slack rescue before reaching Grub, 
I assumed it must be working off the BIOS settings rather than any OS 
ones. . . 

> If you disconnect the IDE drives completely does the system still 
boot of
> the Slackware rescure CD?

That's a thought. Haven't tried that yet. I'll give it a go.