Quote Originally Posted by rdaneel
..... and if I set the BIOS to boot from the hard disk first, I cannot boot anything from SBM. What have I done?
I'm not sure. I expect that Phlak boots OK when the CD is first in the boot order because you have a BIOS that is able to boot some but not all bootable CD's. I certainly have a BIOS like this, it's in an older system (was old enough that it couldn't boot CD's at all, but when I got a BIOS update for it for Y2K it gained the ability to boot CDs, but isn't quite smart enough to boot all of the ones it should be able to without the help of SBM or XOSL). As to what the SBM problem is I do not know. You might try another Ctrl-I. You might try booting SBM from a floppy and seeing if it behaves any differently there. You say "I cannot boot anything from SBM", but I'm not sure that means the same to you that it would mean to me. Are you saying that you can't boot anything on the hard disk (or even a floppy) when you boot into SMB either, or do you just mean that you can't boot a CD?

This sounds like the kind of thing that is best fixed by getting a nice warm cup of coffee or tea, sitting down and thinking things out. I've run SBM on many systems (and XOS on many others) without seeing any problems like this.