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you're probably using a bad cd drive config. My experience was on windows, so i don't know if its even remotely helpful, but i found that when you first set up epsxe, the cdrom needs to be set up right, or else you will get a situation like the one you have, where the bios will work, images will work, but running from a physical drive will not. I don't know how the cd plugin works on linux, but i would check that out. if worst comes to worst, image your discs and run off of that (it'll be faster that way, as a bonus)
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