CDROM Booting Problems

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:43:41AM -0500, Adam Raymond wrote:
> Just to tell you all, I have used the burned isos on other systems, so
> I am burning the CD's right.
> 
> Iam booting from CD(using the bios option). The only thing I can think
> of is the battery. I currently do not have the CMOS battery on my
> motherboard. I have yet to replace it. But I don't think that has
> anything to do with my problem, since the windows 98 CD booted fine.

There are multiple modes of CD booting, and many BIOSs don't support
them all (some only supprot whatever microsoft uses on their CDs).

Win98 CDs tend to use 1.44MB floppy emulation, while NT4 and above tend
to use 'no emulation' boot.  Many linux CDs use no emulation not (using
isolinux or similar) while some use 1.44 or more often 2.88MB floppy
emulation.  If your bios doesn't correctly support that it might make
the cd unreadable for booting.

Is the CD driver master or slave, and on which ide connector?  what is
it sharing a cable with if anything?

Is 'PnP OS Installed' set to yes or no in the bios?

Lennart Sorensen
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