CDROM Booting Problems

[Adam Raymond]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:38:56 -0500, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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

The CD drive is slave and is on connector 1. I have my hard drive on master. 

The PnP OS Installed option is set to NO. In the bios. I tyred to set
it to yes, and the same error occurred.

Just to update. I don't get an invalid system disk error anymore. It
says booting from CD ROM: Failure. Then says press any key to reboot.

- Adam Raymond
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