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
