Grrr... after fiddling around for some time with different CDROM drives and such to make my Via EPIA rev.b board boot from CD (which it didn't), I tried setting the ATA CDROM drive to slave instead of master on the secondary bus as last step before destroying the whole thing - and suddenly everything worked.
Should have used PXE netboot from the beginning, which would have saved me an evening or so at least...
Should have used PXE netboot from the beginning, which would have saved me an evening or so at least...