It's a BIOS issue. ide cd-rom's can be bootable, too (mine is), but your
bios needs to be set for it. You need to have a bios that supports bootup
from cdrom and you need to set the boot sequence so that the cdrom is looked
for first to boot from, rather than the hard drive.
On Monday 01 January 2001 12:23 am, you wrote:
> Are you sure, I believe it depends on your BIOS first
> and foremost, if you can set it to boot in a priority
> of cd-rom, floppy,HD.
>
> Al
>
> --- Tom Berkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You need a cdrom that is bootable. I have never been
> > able to boot with an
> > ide cdrom drive, however, my plextor cdrom drives on
> > my scsi bus are
> > bootable. I am in fact reminded often when I leave a
> > linux cd in either
> > cdrom drive and reboot my system.
> >
> > Tom Berkley
> >
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Brian Hartman, MLS
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