[ale] Booting From DVDROM

[Geoffrey]

Danny Cox wrote:
> All,
> 
> 	Thanks greatly for the router recommendations.  Since that went so
> well, here's a stumper:  I recently upgraded my motherboard to an ASUS
> A7N8X-X with an Athlon 3000+ and 1 GB ram (woo hoo!)
> 
> 	I have a DVD-ROM drive as the 2nd IDE master, and no slave on that IDE
> cable.  The drive is a Sony, I think.
> 
> 	It refuses to boot from a CD!  I won't go into everything I've tried,
> but I've done lots, including a different plain CDROM drive (do you know
> how scarce a plain vanilla CDROM drive is nowadays? ;-).
> 
> 	I've got the BIOS' three BOOT options all pointing to the CDROM (and
> I've tried all sorts of combos), and it still goes straight to the GRUB
> MBR on the HD!  Rats!  And, yes: the BIOS prints out the ID of the
> drive, so it "recognizes it", for some definition of "recognize".
> 
> 	The only thing I've not yet tried is the DVDROM drive uses a 40 pin
> cable, instead of an 80 pin.  I don't hold much hope in that, though.
> 
> 	So, let's get quibbling, folks!  What am I missing?

Do you see the cdrom drive led light as if it's attempting to access the 
drive?  Are you trying to boot from a known good cd?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995