[ale] Booting From DVDROM

[Danny Cox]

William,

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 17:03, William Bagwell wrote:
> > A7N8X-X with an Athlon 3000+ and 1 GB ram (woo hoo!)
> 
> > 	I've got the BIOS' three BOOT options all pointing to the CDROM (and
> > I've tried all sorts of combos), and it still goes straight to the GRUB
> > MBR on the HD!  Rats!  And, yes: the BIOS prints out the ID of the
> > drive, so it "recognizes it", for some definition of "recognize".
> 
> Similar issue with an A7V8X-X, had to turn off (un-check) HD in the BIOS boot 
> options. Just changing the order does not work. Not sure what you mean by 
> "all three"?

	Okay, I just rebooted, and wrote down some stuff.

	The BIOS is Phoenix AwardBIOS.

	Under 'Advanced', the fields are labeled:

	 First Boot Device: CDROM
	Second Boot Device: Disabled
	 Third Boot Device: Disabled
	 Boot Other Device: Enabled
	(there are more above and below these, of course)

	I see the drive LED flashing on the first part of boot (POST), but
never thereafter.  Grub, from HDD-0 is what's called.

	Rats!

	I *do* have a Buslogic SCSI host-adapter which has it's own BIOS
sequence and display.  Could that be part of the problem?

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Danny