Re: [TCLUG:17283] boot off SCSI cdrom

[Brian T <tobytoo@black-hole.com>]

Have You reset the bios to boot from drive A: first?




On Sat, 06 May 2000, you 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?
> -- 
> Jon Schewe 
> http://eggplant.mtu.net/~jpschewe
> schewe@tcfreenet.org
> 
> 
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