[CoLoCo] More recovery fun

[Andrew]

I like the 'check cd for defects' feature of the ubuntu live-cd's. I
don't know if other distros have that, but it's a nice feature.


> 
> The freezing symptom makes me think that you may not have burned a
> valid copy of whatever livecd you are using. Try to borrow a
> known-to-be-good copy of Knoppix (or other) and boot from that. Even
> with a good copy, you may need to boot with the noapic option. Quite a
> few (mostly older) systems have broke apic support that gives Linux
> fits.
>