Subj : Re: boot floppy to facilitate boot from IDE CDROM on classic Pentium
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Justin Jones
Date : Wed Nov 24 2004 11:27 pm

Roby wrote:
> 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

Thanks.  That's exactly the sort of thing I was looking
for, but unfortunanately I was not successful [OxAA error]
in booting my Dell Latitude laptop XPiCD classic Pentium
150mhz [flashed to A12 BIOS] using the Smart Boot Manager
3.7.1 boot floppy.
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Its CD-ROM is a bit finnicky in which brands of CD-R's
it will read but that was ruled out as the problem by
trying a couple of factory burnt CD's.
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