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Re: [TCLUG:17283] boot off SCSI cdrom



On 6 May 2000, Jon Schewe wrote:

> Before I bought a new machine I was able to get this drive/card
> combination to boot, but now I cannot.  I've got a Fireport 40 with 2
> cdrom drives, one a plextor cdrw and a pioneer.  I've got a Tyan Tiger 100
> dual board.  I used to have an Acer Open single board.  When the system
> boots with a bootable cd in the drive the SCSI bios notices that the disc
> is bootable and states that it's becoming drive A and my regular floppy
> drive is becoming B, just like it always has.  However the system BIOS
> still boots off the hard drive rather than the cdrom.  Anyone got any
> ideas?  What other information might be helpful?

Did you change the boot order in your BIOS?

Pacem in Terris / Mir / Shanti / Salaam / Heiwa
Kevin R. Bullock