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Subject: Booting Problem
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
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I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on.  The =
bios will not boot from USB stick.  I am using an external CD drive.  It =
starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader message =
with revision 1.1.  Then it puts out the machine, date, time the CD was =
created and starts the spinner.  It spins around about 2 times and =
stops.  The system continues to read from the drive for another couple =
minutes.  Then everything stops.  Nothing more happens.

The CD is good.  I can boot it just fine using the same external drive =
on another machine.  While I could remove the drive and temporarily =
mount in in the working machine and build it there, I would like to find =
a way to successfully boot from CD.  This will become a remote machine =
and taking it apart later is not a viable option.=