On Fri, February 22, 2008 7:56 pm, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> I have yet another of those really old BIOS boxes that won't boot from a >> DVD. It does have 2 DVD drives. >> >> I'm thinking of >> >> 1. taking off the CD boot image and booting from it >> >> 2. toggling to the CLI and mounting the DVD on the other drive and then >> exporting it >> >> 3. doing a NFS install to 127.0.0.1 >> >> Comments? Could this work? >> > > Does the DVD work, and does it have a floppy drive?
Has worked elsewhere, and yes. > Maybe smart boot manager is worth a try: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4185 > > SBM boots to the floppy and lets you re-choose a boot device from a > menu. It does sometimes help on those older bios's. > What a great utility. Thanks > Regards, > ..jim > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
