Re: [Unattended] booting linuxboot from a floppy (when BIOS doesn't support CD-ROM booting)- possible?
Hi, just put the dust off some old pentium I with 166MHz. The BIOS claims to be able to boot from CD-ROM but this is not true. Put Smart Boot Manager on a floppy (sbminst -d 0) and switched on this old machine. Smart Boot Manager showed its menue and I was able to boot the CD-ROM! Smart Boot Manager has its own module (edd30.asm) for booting off a CD-ROM. Regards Stefan Kell On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Jordan Share wrote: Stefan Kell wrote: Hm, did you try smart boot manager on a machine which could not boot from CD? To be honest, no. :) The docs explicitly talk about this functionality, but I have never had cause to use it. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] booting linuxboot from a floppy (when BIOS doesn't support CD-ROM booting)- possible?
Jordan Share wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's really handy. I have commented on it before. I used it for installing Windows XP from CD on a machine that wouldn't boot from CD. I just wish I knew what the image name was called and where it could be found. Well, there is this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/ That will let you boot floppy-CD. btmgr is the tool I used for it - thanks! Tomek --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] booting linuxboot from a floppy (when BIOS doesn't support CD-ROM booting)- possible?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was playing around with v3.0 of debian, and somewhere on the distribution CD there was a floppy disk image that you could boot from, and it would present you another boot menu where you could choose what DEVICE to boot from. With this floppy, you could boot it, insert your bootable CD into your non bootstrapping CD-ROM, and the disk would start reading and booting from the cd-rom. It's really handy. I have commented on it before. I used it for installing Windows XP from CD on a machine that wouldn't boot from CD. I just wish I knew what the image name was called and where it could be found. Well, there is this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/ That will let you boot floppy-CD. I don't know if it is what was included with Debian 3.0, though. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] booting linuxboot from a floppy (when BIOS doesn't support CD-ROM booting)- possible?
Hi, yes your right, same thought occured to me after I sent my mail, sorry! Hm, did you try smart boot manager on a machine which could not boot from CD? Regards Stefan Kell On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Jordan Share wrote: Those links both discuss setting the BIOS to boot from CD after the HD, and then using lilo to trick the BIOS into thinking that the HD boot failed (thus causing it to boot to the next device, the CD). The original poster was looking for a way to boot to a CD *when the BIOS does not support booting to CD*. Thus, you need some alternate bootloader, such as smart boot manager, which you then boot from floppy (and it boots to CD). Jordan Stefan Kell wrote: Hi, take a look at http://www.hochstrasser.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Linux.LiloCDBoot; or http://www.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.security/2002-12/0483.html; Regards Stefan Kell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was playing around with v3.0 of debian, and somewhere on the distribution CD there was a floppy disk image that you could boot from, and it would present you another boot menu where you could choose what DEVICE to boot from. With this floppy, you could boot it, insert your bootable CD into your non bootstrapping CD-ROM, and the disk would start reading and booting from the cd-rom. It's really handy. I have commented on it before. I used it for installing Windows XP from CD on a machine that wouldn't boot from CD. I just wish I knew what the image name was called and where it could be found. Well, there is this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/ That will let you boot floppy-CD. I don't know if it is what was included with Debian 3.0, though. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] booting linuxboot from a floppy (when BIOS doesn't support CD-ROM booting)- possible?
Stefan Kell wrote: Hm, did you try smart boot manager on a machine which could not boot from CD? To be honest, no. :) The docs explicitly talk about this functionality, but I have never had cause to use it. Jordan --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
