sorry for being such a noob. i don't know what i was thinking. i made that out a lot harder than it needed to be. if your end goal is a HDD install, and you can boot on one laptop but not the...

Someone at work just suggested using a boot command:

slax acpi=off nohotplug

...but said that it will disable all my drivers (video, pcmcia, etc). I'll give that a whirl when I get home to see...

Hopefully you understood most of my problem from the title. BT2b boots and installs fine. BT2final doesn't. I've tried burning at the slowest speed my burner will allow (4x) and checked and...