Boot from CD when the BIOS does not support it.

[Rick Stevens]

Justin Zygmont wrote:
> there might be a BIOS upgrade for it, what processor is it, just about 
> anyhing with at least a P-75 and up would have a BIOS that can boot from 
> the CD.

If you still have issues, try SmartBootManager.  It installs to a
floppy, you boot the floppy, then it'll boot darn near any media your
machine has on it.

	http://btmgr.webframe.org/

> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
> 
>> I have an old Windows 95 machine in a lab which
>> I would like to image with partimage.  I want
>> to boot the System Rescue CD. This is an
>> old machine and cannot boot from CD.
>>
>> Does anyone have a canned grub.conf file I can
>> use to build a bootable floppy that will tell
>> the machine to use the cd file system as the
>> boot device?
>>
>> It is a long (and not very pretty) story why
>> I need a windows 95 machine running.
>>
>> Robert E. Styma
>> Principal Engineer (DMTS)
>> Lucent Technologies, Phoenix
>> Email: stymar at lucent.com / styma at swlink.net
>> Phone: 623-582-7323
>> Company:  http://www.lucent.com
>> Personal: http://www.swlink.net/~styma
>>
>>
> 


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