Re: Cannot boot from CDROM

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• From: Raman Gupta <rocketraman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:12:09 -0400
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Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Burnie West writes:
> 
> Looks like your BIOS is capable only of booting from the first CD-ROM
> device.  Your BIOS cannot boot from your second CD-ROM device (your
> DVD-RW drive).
> 
> You will need to re-connect and re-jumper everything so that your DVD-RW
> is the first CD-ROM device that your BIOS sees.

This program called Smart Boot Manager can apparently can do this (I
haven't tried it myself yet though):

http://btmgr.webframe.org/

Cheers,
Raman

• References:
  • Cannot boot from CDROM
    • From: Burnie West
  • Re: Cannot boot from CDROM
    • From: Sam Varshavchik

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