Re: [SLUG] OT: cry for help with boot cd

From: William Coulter (wrcoulter33@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2008 - 08:01:28 EDT


I think that I was not making any since yesterday. I have 5 different
laptops and I want diagnostic CD. It would have the 5 current or up to date
version of the BIOS on it, asset tag utillity and a low level format for the
hard drive. Something small and simple, I thought. All the laptops can and
do boot to a CD. That is something I do know how to do.

Thanks,
William

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Richard Smoot <rsmoot@tampabay.rr.com>
wrote:

> On Monday 02 June 2008 22:01, William Coulter wrote:
> > I need some help. I have been searching all over the net and still can't
> > get it to work. I have read and seen all the stuff from the Bart's CD
> and
> > the Ultimate Boot CD and it is way over my head. I am not trying to do
> > something complicated, I think. All I am trying to do is create a CD
> that
> > will boot and display a menu that will have a list of 5 different BIOS or
> > other DOS programs. It is a windows stuff so, if you want to post off
> list
> > that works for me. I really need some help and I the online forum that I
> > have posted to, well, I have had no help or answers. I am going nuts
> over
> > this.
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > William
> Do you have 5 physical BIOS chips on your motherboard?
> Are you wanting to run a real DOS environment or just DOS under
> Windows?
> Do you have 5 partitions you want to have bootable?
>
>
> First thing you have to enable booting from a CD in your BIOS.
> This is not always a default setting. Download a live Linux CD image and
> burn a bootable disc, if you can't get that to work, this is not at all
> doable
> for you.
>
> I have used one Linux boot manager to let me select at boot C drive with
> IBM
> PC dos 6.3, D drive Windows NT4.0 or one of 3 differant Linux Distros.
> I had boot flopys for everything while I was setting this up.
> It was a bit trial and error Til I hit one of the Linuxs whose boot manager
> saw everthing on its own.
>
> Richard Smoot
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