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CD-ROM for dos
Name: Andre Viau Date: April 15, 2005 at 20:58:26 Pacific OS: ms dos CPU/Ram: 386
Comment:
Hey, I have installed a cd-rom driver but i dont know how to boot from the cd-rom. Can anyone help? Thanks!
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: April 16, 2005 at 01:39:21 Pacific
Reply:
Booting from CD is a BIOS issue.
Drivers don't load until DOS boots.
Is your BIOS set to boot USB?
Is there a bootable CD in the drive?
M2
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
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Response Number 2
Name: jboy Date: April 16, 2005 at 07:53:32 Pacific
Reply:
Booting from a CD is just not an option for a 386 (or a 486 and even some Pentiums)
As mentioned - cart before the horse - you have to be booted up to DOS in order to load the DOS drivers - it's not a DOS issue, it depends on the capabilities of the BIOS
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Response Number 3
Name: martint123 Date: April 16, 2005 at 08:19:45 Pacific
Reply:
As said, this is a bios limitation, not DOS. But..... I have used Smart Boot Manager when I have had to install something on an old machine that only comes on a bootable CD.
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html
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Response Number 4
Name: jubalsams Date: April 17, 2005 at 02:50:03 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks Martin,
That was a wild goose chase, that's all unix stuff! This is DOS area!
Best
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Response Number 5
Name: Andre Viau Date: April 17, 2005 at 08:08:27 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for the information!!!
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Response Number 6
Name: martint123 Date: April 19, 2005 at 13:44:57 Pacific
Reply:
jubalsams - This may be a Dos area, but the problem seems to be the bios (not booting CD) rather than dos. I haven't a clue what the 'superboot' floppy was written for - dos, unix or whatever. I do know that if I boot my 'superboot' floppy I get asked if I want to boot from floppy, hd0, hd1 or cd and I can boot from the techie toolbox cd or whatever.
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