>Here is my situation:
>- Intel machine, with DOS 6.22 installed
>- have BOOT.IMG disk in A: drive
>- have RedHat 6.0 disk in CDROM
>- upon REBOOT, I get to the point where bios says "HD installed", it
>then accesses floppy, floppy access doesn't stop, no command prompt, no
>HD disk activity
>- is this problem because my CDROM drive is not bootable?? If so, what
>do I do??
>- the MSDOS boot disk won't even get me a command prompt anymore.
>CD-ROM: Goldstar 8X speed (manuf. 1996), fcc#BEJGCD-R580B, ROM ver.
>1.00
Your problem is likely NOT the CD-ROM drive itself, but the BIOS, which is
either:
1. Not configured to boot from the CD
OR
2. Not configurable to boot from the CD
If you are familiar with your BIOS, you must configure it to look to the CD-ROM
drive BEFORE looking to the HD (which it isn't doing now). This is an EXPLICIT
option in BIOSes that support it (starting with Socket 7 motherboards; however,
not even all Socket 7 mobos allow this).
If the BIOS allows CD-based booting, your Goldstar DOES allow this (bootable
IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drives can be as slow as 4x; both the TEAC CD-54E and Mitsumi
FX-410T allow booting).
Otherwise, you'll either need to:
1. Change your BIOS (yikes!)
OR
2. Change your mobo ($$)
Christopher L. Estep
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