Re: can't boot from CDROM, bios doesn't have a boot order selectio

While in the bios what are the screens that you see? If you have a screen
that says advanced settings it is probable that the boot order is set within
it. We just need some more info. Good Luck,

Joe

Kemco IT Tech

"surf" wrote:


Tim Slattery wrote:
"surf" <surfunbear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have several other older PCs that all boot fine after you select
<del> on startup and set the boot order in bios, but this PC someone
gave me doesn't even have a boot order in the bios, though when it is
in win XP you can see the cdrom drive fine.

There must some kind of boot order setting in the BIOS setup
someplace. On older machines that would involve (probably) two
floppies and a hard drive. The ability to boot from a CD is relatively
new, so an older machine wouldn't have that.

If the BIOS doesn't know about booting from a CD, then you can't do
it. You may find an update for the BIOS someplace, but I wouldn't bet
the rent money on it.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@xxxxxxx


This is where I am now, I posted this on a linux group, but no one has
replied yet ...

I got an old pc from a friend, 4 gig hard drive, cd rom, 2 floppy
drives.


I couldn't get XP to boot from the CD, there was no selection in the
bios, so I downloaded loadlin.exe and followed the instructions. I had
to create a bootable dos disk, booted to ms-dos and
ran loadlin. After I set the partition table it recomended I write it
to disk and reboot, but duh I blew away windows disk. So know when it
boots of the floppy it can no longer find the C: drive where loadlin,
intitrd.img and ide files are .


I guess I may be able to fit loadlin.exe, ide, and initrd.img onto two
floppies if I can find a machine that has a floppy drive to copy them.
I would need to be able to run loadlin and specify a path.
can I do:


A> loadlin ide root=/dev/ram rw initrd=B:\initrd.img


the file sizes of these are:
1.422 k
32 k
1.223 k
I can't remember exactly how much space a floppy has ?


any better approaches for this problem ?


does linload have to have these when it starts ?


.

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