CD _-Rom booting

when in the bios setting the first boot is set to cd-rom first it will boot first

You can set up the boot up order of devices in your BIOS. A typical boot order would be: CDRom, Floppy, Harddisk drive. You can set these to any order that you choose. Hope this helps.

Hi Wayne,

I suspect that the boot order set in BIOS settings, has the CD, and perhaps the floppy drive listed before the hard drive.

If everything is running fine, change the boot order to have your hard drive as the first (or only) boot device.

If the BIOS can boot from CD,
and there is a bootable CD in the drive,
and the CD drive is listed before the hard drive in the boot device sequence,
then the BIOS will choose to boot from the CD and not the hard drive.

Chas

Just another tidbit the reason a machine can boot from cdrom is called the

"EL Torito Protocol"

google that some time when you have a lot of spare reading time.

Just another tidbit the reason a machine can boot from cdrom is called the

"EL Torito Protocol"

google that some time when you have a lot of spare reading time.

There a lot, when you are attempting to install a OS like win2000 you will boot for the CD-Rom, that save your time in making a bootdisk for 2000 setup disk....

Or the one reason that's why they need to boot to CD-ROM is the program that to be loaded it too big and CD-ROM are suited for that capacity. Unlike floopy disk if you want to make a program that is 10 MB in size so it may be upto 10 pcs of floopy disk, and if you are using CD-ROM image its only one, IT FREE UP YOU FROM HASTLE....I have a link there and i think it can help....(remove spaces)
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/cd-roms.html

Pinoy_Teknik

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