I?ve got an Adaptec Ultra SCSI controller that runs my 2 Plextor CD & CD-R drives. When I put in a bootable cd, it recognizes it as a bootable cd but wont boot from it. I?ve tried playing with the bios boot options, AWARD bios, tried switching between boot from scsi & cd, & the darn thing still wont boot off the cd. Am I missing a hot key during boot-up?
Thanks for any help in advance,
Ski
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In my Award BIOS you need to select SCSI as boot device for the system to be able to boot from a SCSI disk/CD. If you select CD it only looks for an IDE CD to boot from AFAICT.
I hope this will resolve your problem but keep us posted whatever the case.
With most SCSI controller cards you either have to set it to boot from cd in the controller's bios, and if it doesn't have one then go into your motherboard's bios and set the boot options to boot from scsi, not ide, then it should be able to boot off of the scsi cd rom, as previosly said in most award bios's you should have an option under boot that says boot from either scsi or ide, also you may have an option depending on the motherboard maker to load onboard raid/scsi bios, if you have that option try turning it on and give it a try
[ October 04, 2001: Last edited by Adam878639 ]</p>
Well....after finding a floppy that wasn't f#%*$d up, I flashed the SCSI card w/ the newest bios update
& what do you know....the darn thing just booted right up off that good-old SCSI cd rom
Thanks for all of your help,
Adrian
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