On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 02:32 +0100, Tom wrote: > Hi > > I had a very un-nice evening, trying to get my system back into a > usable state, which I eventually managed, but that is another story. > > It made me realise I need a way to be able to use my cdrom drive to > boot cds. > Let me explain before you say 'huuhh!?' > I bought a new dvdwriter a couple of weeks ago, and ever since I am no > longer able to boot from cd (using that drive, its SATA). It seems its a > bios bug or something, I even contacted the vendor (ASRock) and they > sent me an updated flash image, which I was sofar unable to install, > for some strange obscure reason.(I generally do know how to flash > bioses, and strangely the 'official' bios images from their site work, > just not the one support sent me, they are now offering to send me a > pre-burnt bios chip, but I'm slighly reluctant to go that road...) > > So now I'm basically thinking to myself, ok, I have a floppy drive, so > what I need is a floppy disk, with a small kernel and my sata-chipset > driver and some mechanism for then booting of a (bootable)cd lying > ready in my drive. > > So, any ideas how to do something like this? Maybe something ready > made, or a convenient script. > > Everything I found regarding this, was using 2.3 kernels and were > generally out of date :( > > Tom >
Smart Boot Manager (http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/)
