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On 18 Sep 2002 15:20:34 -0400 |
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Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Also the 2940 is running version 1.23 of the bios (latest one |
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> > available)... in theory it is suppose to support bootable CD's |
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> > but it doesn't seem to work with this oh and btw I used the |
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> > livecd-ut2003-x86-1.4_rc1.iso version. |
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> > The CD works fine when I use it on a machine with an IDE CD ... it's |
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> > just that SCSI CD on my home machine that is the problem. And it is |
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> > strange that when the system is booting up it notices that it has a |
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> > bootable CD and reports it during the adaptec device check. But no |
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> > clue why it decides to ignore it and just jumps to the hard drive |
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> > with my operating system. For an experiment to see if I could force |
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> > it to boot from the SCSI cd I disconnected the harddrive so it |
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> > wouldn't have another device to boot from ... but that failed as it |
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> > refused to boot from anything. |
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> Can you boot other cd's using this drive? The earlier livecd had a |
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My bet is that he can't. |
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As well as the SCSI BIOS detecting that the CD is bootable you also have |
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to set the main BIOS of the motherboard to boot from SCSI (not CD) |
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before the HD. |
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Mark Gordon |
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