Old CDROMs are picky. Sometimes all it takes is to reinsert the the disc in the drive and reboot again. I have an old drive that doesn't pick up on every boot so sometime just reloading helps. It also helps to use a full sized CD in older drives.
--- Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a similar problem -- I've reset the bios boot settings > in an > older system I'm working on, but most of the time it thinks > there is not > cdrom at all in there, and so boots (grub takes over here, in > my case > -- but sometimes it *does* boot the CD). Is there any > hardware magic I > can do without messing up this system worse, or is there some > grub-ly > magic to get a prompt then force it to boot from cdrom? BTW, > this box > has the avg config of one cdrom, one hard drive, and one > floppy (which I > haven't tried at all!). I think dust accumulated in the drive > is my > enemy here... any tips? > > regards and thanks a bundle, > > Ben __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
