boot from a and start the cd ?

[Scorp]

Hello to all

I was wondering if it is possible to start a bootible cd like the Bart pe or the 911cd normal boot cd but from the a drive .

Explenation

pc not able to boot from cd .

insert disk in drive a starts booting from a then continuing from the cd like it started from the boot cd.

Thanks to all

Scorp

[Incroyable HULK]

This is an interesting question. I've run into some old but also newer computer which didn't want to boot from a CD...

I am looking into it and I'll get back to you if I find something...

[airburst]

I use Smart Boot Manager, available here. Have a look around the site to get an idea.

This small download is a DOS exe file. I store it in a folder named 'tools' on my bootable CD or BizCard and have a batch file as follows:

@ECHO OFF
echo Insert a blank floppy disk in drive A
pause
cd ..\..\tools
sbminst -d 0 -y

Note: the last line shows the necessary syntax to write a bootable floppy disk.

Having created a bootable floppy, reboot the system with the floppy in place and force a boot to CD 0.

This has worked very well for me in the past.

[Scorp]

Thank you very much airburst

The program is working perfect

Great program thank you very much.

scorp

[htc]

But...

the smartboot manager has also limitations, i.g.:

1) the only bootable cd drive is the one with atapi interface, so

2) it cannot boot from usb external cd drive,

3) it cannot boot from scsi internal & external cd drive,

4) it cannot boot from (most of) pcmcia external cd drive(depend on the mainboard bios of the notebook),

5) it cannot boot from firewire external cd drive,

6) it cannot boot from paralell-port(print-port) external cd drive...

and so on....

[fredmsfn]

If your computer boots from CD using a bootable Win98 CD, you get a menu to boot from CD or HDD. Maybe you could extract the boot image from the CD and write it to a floppy? then you would get that menu, but i cant be sure that it would work.

Also, bootscriptor on a floppy, with a menu (like a lot of boot cds use) could point to the Hex address of the CD or whatever (HDD0= x80 i think). so that would be fast and easy, but again i'm not sure whether it would work.

[htc]

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