Re: [TCLUG:17283] boot off SCSI cdrom

[Jon Schewe <jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net>]

Yep, it boots fine off a floppy.  

Brian T <tobytoo@black-hole.com> writes:

> Have You reset the bios to boot from drive A: first?
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> 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?
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> > schewe@tcfreenet.org
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