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On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
> Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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
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> Can you boot a different OS (Win, Ububtu, gparted, etc ...) from the
> same drive on the same machine?

Not so far.  The drive works fine on other systems.