Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2700 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rafe wrote:
> > > wierd I know.
> >
> > Early CDROM's were not bootable. I was told this
> > years ago when I 
> > wondered why I couldn't boot SuSE 6.1 on an old Fuji
> > laptop.
> > Regards
> > Sid.
>
>
> I found it very strange that a usb floppy could boot,
> but not a usb cdrom.  Most of the time you can boot
> from usb or not.  Plus this laptop is not old enough
> to have this limit.  
>
> Bootable cdroms look a lot like floppies to the
> hardware.  I am not sure why the hardware cannot be
> fooled into booting from the cdrom.
>
> I also think that a very small change in the system
> bios would fix this -- but I guess not.  I have an
> ancient pI box that after a bios update now boots from
> cdrom.  You would think that a pIII box would.
>
> Rafe
I would also expect a P-III to be able to bot from CDROM, my old laptop 
is a P-II/333 64M + 2M video and 20G HD, it booted from cdrom and 
installed 9.3 in non-graphical mode due to the low memory, but X works 
fine with Windowmaker and all small window managers, KDE is tooooooo 
slow, if you move the cursor, it'll take an age for anything to happen, 
but YaST performs OK under Windowmaker or fvwm.
Regards
Sid.
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