Cannot boot from CD

[booyabazooka]

I wasn't sure if my pc was capable of booting from a CD, but there is a BIOS boot setting that says check CD-ROM first... so I picked it. Attempting to boot from the "rescue cd" yields:

isorom: Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it
...
isorom: Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed

The machine is a Dell Dimension XPS P200s, and I'm attempting to use a Sony CD-RW CRW160E. The drive works. (I'm running Windows 2000 on the pc now.)

Any suggestions on the cause/solution?

(on a side note, the Win2k bootable floppy spans 4 disks... why the crap can't Fedora come up with a multi-disk solution?)

[booyabazooka]

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Any idea at least what the problem is? I'm completely lost.