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Hi |
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I had a very un-nice evening, trying to get my system back into a |
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usable state, which I eventually managed, but that is another story. |
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It made me realise I need a way to be able to use my cdrom drive to |
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boot cds. |
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Let me explain before you say 'huuhh!?' |
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I bought a new dvdwriter a couple of weeks ago, and ever since I am no |
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longer able to boot from cd (using that drive, its SATA). It seems its a |
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bios bug or something, I even contacted the vendor (ASRock) and they |
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sent me an updated flash image, which I was sofar unable to install, |
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for some strange obscure reason.(I generally do know how to flash |
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bioses, and strangely the 'official' bios images from their site work, |
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just not the one support sent me, they are now offering to send me a |
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pre-burnt bios chip, but I'm slighly reluctant to go that road...) |
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So now I'm basically thinking to myself, ok, I have a floppy drive, so |
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what I need is a floppy disk, with a small kernel and my sata-chipset |
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driver and some mechanism for then booting of a (bootable)cd lying |
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ready in my drive. |
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So, any ideas how to do something like this? Maybe something ready |
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made, or a convenient script. |
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Everything I found regarding this, was using 2.3 kernels and were |
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generally out of date :( |
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Tom |