From: jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid   
      
   Nuno Silva  writes:   
      
   > Funny thing, that's how my first distro got picked. Uknownst to me then,   
   > but knownst to me now, there was a step in the bootstrapping process of   
   > that machine which used an incorrect/incomplete and needless El Torito   
   > implementation (I should have just used the one in AMIBIOS   
   > directly...). This failed to boot a lot of install media (and also live   
   > media). IIRC I ended up going with the first that booted.   
   That's what happened to me. I had Slackware, maybe Debian, and maybe   
   Mandrake (?) - it's been a long time - but Slackware booted and others   
   didn't. I can't say it was because of the same issue but the effect was   
   the same.   
      
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