Subj : Re: boot floppy to facilitate boot from IDE CDROM on classic Pentium
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Roby
Date : Mon Nov 15 2004 09:49 am

Justin Jones wrote:

> boot floppy to facilitate boot from IDE CDROM on classic Pentium
> 
> I have an old Dell laptop Pentium 150Mhz XPiCD without BIOS
> support for booting from CDROM, but there are several boot
> Utility Linux Boot CD's I would like to run on this box from
> time to time.  Is there a premade boot floppy to facilitate
> this or does that even make sense?  i.e., appartently there
> is more to it than boot=/dev/hdc at the lilo prompt and
> would such a boot floppy have to be custom made for each
> LiveCD Utility?

Ask your favorite search engine to find Smart Boot Manager, which will make
you a floppy disk that will boot CDROMs on that machine.  I've used it on a
vintage 1996 P166 machine.  Works well.

Roby

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