How to boot from disk

[rwcitek]

I have tried multiple computers and burning at an extremely slow speed. I have also done the knoppix testcd and everything is ok on that.

So the knoppix testcd works, which means that you can boot Knoppix at least into text mode. Is that correct?

When I tried useing smb I got the message smbk bad!

Do you really mean SMB (aka Samba) or do you mean SBM (Smart Boot Manager)?

I get the same blinking Hyphen or Underscore and it then skips to boot up windows xp. Some other background if it helps is that I CAN boot the install/recovery console for Windows XP but I never see the Boot screen for knoppix on this one computer.

If you can't see the boot screen, how are you able to run 'testcd'?

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org/