[Novalug] BIOS boot equence puzzlement

[Ed James]

Also, early CD's were not bootable devices themselves, which could
be fixed by just installing a newer CD.  Still, to follow Jason's
line of thought, what is the maker, version, and date of the BIOS
that the old machine has?

Note - I bought a PC Warehouse machine with just DOS installed a long
time ago.  It was just an original Pentium.  The CD was bootable, but
the machine was a little flakey in that only devices on IDE0 (the first
ribbon cable for the drives) were bootable.  Since the machine had 2
HD's and one CD, it was a pain to yank HD-2 and replace it with the
CD just to install an OS.

Quoting Jason <novalug at jasons.us>:

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> I would add Question negative 1: are you sure that the BIOS supports
> booting from CD?  A system running NT may be old enough not to. What
> do you see in the BIOS for boot order selection?
>
> Ed James wrote:
>> Question one:  Are the cdrom drive and your boot hard drive both on
>> the same ide (or wotever) cable?
>>
>> Question zero: Ya sure the cdrom drive is wired up and works? As in,
>> have you tried to read anything using it?
>>
>> Ed James
>>
>>
>> Quoting Charles M Howe <cmhowe at patriot.net>:
>>
>>> List,
>>>
>>> I bought a used computer from Computer Warehouse. It comes with NT
>>> installed. Later I may be asking how to install Linux, specifically
>>> Ubuntu (or maybe KUbuntu) Feisty. I will probably add it rather than
>>> wipe out NT because I want to play Myst (and maybe Riven).
>>>
>>> But for the moment I want to boot in Knoppix but am unable to do so.
>>> When I look at the BIOS settings at bootup I see no way to do so. I am
>>> used to dealing with BIOS setup programs that allow you to
>>> establish the
>>> boot order. I would want to try the cdrom drive first, obviously.
>>>
>>> Suggestions, please.
>>>
>>> Charlie the Perpetual Newbie
>>>
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> - -Jason
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