On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 08:26, Backward Thinker wrote:
> Forgive the stupid question, but it could possibly save you lots
> of time/trouble so I thought it is worth asking; are you sure you
> can't just enable cdrom as a boot device in your bios? I recently
> installed MEPIS from CD on a 200mhz Pentium Pro with the original
> (1996? 1997?) BIOS. The CD-ROM device (which had long since died
> and been replaced) wasn't enabled originally as a boot device, but
> there was no problem enabling it.
He's using a SCSI CD-ROM. That means:
A. His host adapter (HA) must have a BIOS with El'Torito support, and
B. His mainboard BIOS must be able to target the HA as bootable
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