[vox-tech] booting off cd help

[Stephen M. Helms]

Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> today i had to recover a linux system with filesystem damage.
> 
> it made a bad situation worse when i found that even when BIOS is set to
> boot off of cd first (any CD), it doesn't work.  the system ignores the
> CD in the drive and boots off of the hard disk instead.
> 
> i verified that the CD were bootable on another machine.  this machine
> simply does not boot off of a CD despite the boot order in BIOS
> 
> what could cause such a thing?  the CD drive is kind of old, but i don't
> think that would make a difference.  perhaps there are some other BIOS
> options i'm not familiar.
> 
> any guesses to help me out?
> 
> thanks,
> pete
> 

Take a look at the following url:

http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/

and look at the information in the section "How does a PC boot from 
CD-Rom? (technical)"

Yes, I know this is a Windows/dos site, but it does have some really 
good information on bootable cd's

Stephen