I have a Dell Poweredge 2600 which does not have any standard ide controller on the mb. Since I needed to add an ide dvd-ram, I added a silicon image 0680 ide card. The cd would not boot if put into the dvd-ram with errors very similar to http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/2004-May/003493.html Other users had similar experiencing (on PE2600) with a SIIG card. Googling around I discovered other people having problems with isolinux booting off an ide pci cards or scsi cdrom (see debian installer messages on google). This email is to ask if someone knows/uses an ide pci card with a bios that allows to boot a cd using isolinux without having to move/attach ide hard disks drives. Thanks -- giulioo at pobox.com