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can't boot from cd on a new laptop

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Name: eugen
Date: April 30, 2003 at 11:22:49 Pacific
Subject: can't boot from cd on a new laptop
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CPU/Ram: AMD mobile Athlon XP 1600

Comment:

I have a new laptop (without floppy drive) and I wanted to repartition it and put an OS after that. I did the partitioning with fdisk i think it was ok.
But now I can't boot anything. I have tried with different bootable CDs but with no result. It blocks after displaying the usual informations that appear at boot time. Sometimes it even writes "Searching Boot Record...OK". But then it stops with no informations.
Once when tring with an Mandrake 7 cd it dispalied the installation setup (the list of options) nut then again nothing.
Before partitioning the booting from cd-rom feature was working. I tried it with an WinXP cdrom.
Some sugestions?
Thanks

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Response Number 1

Name: efabes
Date: April 30, 2003 at 14:34:19 Pacific
Subject: can't boot from cd on a new laptop

Reply: (edit)

Have you re-checked the BIOS to make sure it is still set to boot from cd 1st?

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