Re: [PLUG] new, old computer

[Bob Schwier <schwepes@netaxs.com>]

"Smart boot manager?"
Que Que c'est?
bs


On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Fred K Ollinger wrote:

> > You may have an issue booting directly from the CDROM. Some of the older
> > bios' don't support 2.88MB floppies. (I forget off-hand if 7.2 uses such
> > an image. I do know that 8.0 does.)
> >
> > You'll either need to build a boot floppy, there are a few images on the
> > CD, or rebuild the ISO using one of those images as the boot image.
> 
> Also, some of the crappier, ancient bioses don't support booting from
> cdrom at all. For these cases try the smart boot manager. My old compaq
> works great, it can now boot cdroms, and I kept the old hard drive in
> place for booting purposes, only. I can't seem to get it to recognize a
> bigger hard drive when booting, but once I get to the first hard drive,
> I can boot from the second.
> 
> Fred
> 
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