Optical drive not booting

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 20/06/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
>> Talking about stupid BIOS programmers, I had one machine that would
>> not boot off of ether CD-ROM drive when you had both of them
>> installed, but would boot off of ether one if you only had one of
>> them installed. Both drives worked fine after booting. To make
>> matters more interesting, I have a boot floppy I keep around so I
>> can boot from CD-ROM where the BIOS does not support it. It would
>> let me boot from ether drive when I had both installed. So it was a
>> BIOS problem, and not a hardware problem.
>>
>> Mikkel
> 
> Can you send me an image of that disk? I thought that Hiron's Boot
> Disk would have something like that, but I can't find it.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> http://what-is-what.com
> 33q3
> 
You can find it at http://ebcd.pcministry.com/download/oldbios.exe
but I will send you an image of the floppy that the program creates.

Mikkel
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