At 2:58 PM -0500 7/8/05, Mike McCarty wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: ... >>Ack. So "bootable" means the CD is accessable at all through the BIOS, not >>whether it can read a bootsector per se. >> >> >Not quite. I suppose there could be a BIOS with CD support which did >not also allow Boot from CDROM as an option. I haven't seen any, but >there could be. If that were the case, then having a GRUB floppy which >could lift (using the BIOS) the boot image from the CDROM would >help. Well, yes, e.g. the BIOS on my machine allows to choose not booting from some things it is cabable of booting from, as well as changing the order of boot devices. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
