Hi, All, Your BIOS doesn't support booting from cd-rom, or it is so buggy that it cannot boot an eltorito boot cd? Well... Just install the following two packages: "sbm" and "bmconf". The sbm (smart boot manager) can imitate the boot function of bios so it can replace buggy (or absent) boot function. The bmconf is installer and configurator for sbm. First of all, your bios should be configured to boot from a floppy, then you should take a floppy disk, !!Warning!! all data on this floppy will be lost! Also, you'll be able to use this floppy only for booting. to install on the floppy the sbm configured to boot a cd, If you have just one cd-rom drive and your floppy is /dev/fd0, then this command is for you:
bmconf --install ru --device /dev/fd0 --noautoscan --add cdrom=0,name=oralux --list For detail description of all parameters, see man pages of "sbminst" and "bmconf". Then to boot from a cd: insert a bootable cd, insert the prepared floppy and reboot your machine. When you here that the diskette has been read just press enter and booting from the cd starts. I propose to include this utilities compiled for dos/windows with detail instructions of using, in oralux cd. Or just an image of such prepared diskette. p.s. This method was tested even on a i486 DX4 (cpu 100 MHz) Good luck Roma, out _______________________________________________ Oralux mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux
