On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Jim Poer wrote:
You know I read that several times and I still don't get it.
I am trying to put a new hard drive in a machine that has no
floppy disk drive in it, so I need to be able to use the
CDROM drive that it does have in it to do whatever it is that
I have to do to that hard drive in order to put windows 98 on
it.
Here's an (old) article that may help with the non-booting CD
drive. It has to do with slowing down the bios post so the CD
drive has a chance to spin up.
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Posted December 21, 1999 14:00
What type/speed CD-ROM do you have?
Does the Windows98 CD boot properly?
In my machine, I have a Kenwood 52x drive (piece of crap and a
waste of $100), and a Ricoh MP7060 CD-RW drive. My computer
boots up extremely fast, and because of the amount of time it
takes the Kenwood to spin up and initialize the disk, I can't
boot from that drive. I have to stick it in the Ricoh in order
to boot. If you have another CD-ROM drive sitting around, try
that. Believe it or not, the older ones usually initialize a
little faster -- it doesn't have to spin it up as much.
Also -- some motherboards have a "fast boot" option. You may
want to turn this off....give the CD-ROM more time to
initialize. If there's a memory check and/or a floppy seek
option in your BIOS, enable those, too. Anything that can add
time to boot-up can help you troubleshoot. Of course, you'll
want to turn those things off once you're done....unless you
like waiting.
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Posted December 24, 1999 10:57
I had to set the channel my CDROM is on to "autodetect HDD",
otherwise my BH6 won't boot from CD, too.
Posted December 25, 1999 14:40
I had a similar problem with RedHat 6, the problem I
encountered was that the cd hadn't had enough spin up time and
the bios just kept going. I had to press pause-break to pause
the loading of the bios before the cd boot check until the cd
had had enough time to spin up and then I let it do the check
for the cd boot. Just press enter to continue loading the bios
and there shouldn't be any problems. Hope this helps you out.
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