[RndTbl] Booting from a DVD

Shawn Wallbridge shawn at synack-hosting.com
Thu Oct 14 20:32:07 CDT 2004


You should tell it to boot off the ATAPI CDROM. That generally works 
with any optical drive.

shawn

On 14-Oct-04, at 8:24 PM, Mel Seder wrote:

>
> Hi,  would someone help me?
>
> The boot section of my BIOS is as follows.  * are the current settings
> It currently boots to the Hard Drive even though a DVD is in the DVD 
> drive.
>
> 1 Removable Device
>   Disabled
>   * Legacy Floppy
>   LS-120
>   ZIP-100
>   ATAPI MO
>
> 2 ATAPI CD-ROM
>   ASUS CD-S500-A
>   * SONY DVD RW DRU-5
>
> 3 Other Boot Device
>   * Disabled
>   SCSI Boot Device
>   INIT 18 Device (Network)
>
> 4 IDE Hard Drive
>   Disabled
>   * WDC WD300BB-00AUA1
>   WDC WD300BB-00AUA1
>
> Plug and Play O/S = No
>
> I was expecting to see a device like DVD-RW and the SONY DVD as the 
> option.
>
> What do I have to do to boot off a DVD I just burnt?
> Is something else wrong?
>
>
>
>
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