Re: BDI cd booting problem

[Markwayne <markwayne-at-mindspring.com>]

There are usually one or both of two problems. Assuming the disk is 
good. <1>The CD drive cant read the CD-R because it is too old, (the 
drive) usually do to with issues of laser power or the color of the dye 
in the disk. Most 8x and back drives wont read a CD-R at all. CD drives 
more than a hand full of years old won't read CD-RW's either.  <2> The 
Motherboard BIOS may not support CD booting. It needs to be enabled in 
the BIOS, usually it's turned off by default. Don't see the option? Read 
on. Most Pentium 1's and back don't support it, (486? forgetaboutit no 
really, forget about the 486 it's not worth the effort.) Some of the 
Super Socket 7 boards did (AMD K6'es). Check the Mobo mfg,s website for 
the BIOS update, sometimes CD booting was added later. If you have a 1 
you will never find out if you have a 2 or not :). Don't Panic, on your 
Winbox make a boot disc with rawwritewin and an image file. Both are on 
CD 1 in the util and image dir's.

Mark

Jon Elson wrote:
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> nasir2ahmed-at-yahoo.com wrote:
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>> hi
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>> i have downloaded the BDI file "bdiemc218.iso"
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>> and i unzipped this file with winzip software and burned cd from neuro 
>> ( cd burninig software )
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>> now the cd is running but it is not booting from cdrom. (when i want 
>> to isntall the emc from cd it doenst boot from cd)
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>> my questions are
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>> 1. should i burn the cd on a linux machine?
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>> 2.is this the problem of cd burning?