5 Jul
2005
5 Jul
'05
09:37
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