IBM recently replaced my system board in my notebook.
They had also sent along a boot disk to update the serial number on the mobo as the new one s a default number.
They sent long a floppy disk to install the update, one problem, my notebook has no floppy drive.
Now I was amused that they would send a mobo for a notebook, where none of the models in that line had a floppy drive, with a floppy disk to update it?!
The tech that came to install the board said they assumed I would have a USB floppy drive. I’m four hours drive from the nearest IBM support center, why would they ASSUME I had a flopy drive and wouldn’t the tech have a USB floppy drive for just such an occasion?
Anyhow, here’s the problem. I copied all the files to CD and set my system to boot from CD, when the notebook boots, it CHECKS the CD but then boots from the hard drive. To me this indicates a missing BOOT file or something.
Here’s a list of included files, does this make sense as a bootable CD or even FLOPPY disk?
>Autoexec batch file (MSDos application)
>Ce_ut001 (System board update utility)
>Command (MSDOS application)
>Last (aplpication)
I thought about copying the autoexec and command files to the system and then inserting the disk for boot but it sounds a little odd.
Any ideas?