Booting from SCSI CD-ROM question...

[AMDfreak]

I'm using an Adaptec 2940AU card. In the SCSI BIOS, I have enabled my DVD-ROM's SCSI ID as bootable, and enabled the option to boot from a CD-ROM. In the KT7 BIOS, I made the 2nd boot option SCSI, 1st is floppy, 3rd is ATA100. When I boot with a bootable CD though, it just goes on the hard drive. Do I need to enable the option in the SCSI BIOS to treat removeable disks as fixed for booting purposes, or is there something else I've missed?

 

[nightowl]

Yes, there is a setting in the SCSI bios that needs to be enabled to boot from a CD. I don't remember where it is in the Adaptec bios off hand, but from what I do remember you should find a menu with an option for making the CDROM bootable.

 

[AMDfreak]

right, there is one that's already enabled that specifically says it's for booting from a CD, but there's something else about making removable disks appear fixed..... I'm just not sure why it's not working

 

[IsOs]

I don't know if the KT7 BIOS has it, but there's another line in the Advanced BIOS Setting of my Tyan motherboard that specifically says boot from SCSCI device.

 

[AMDfreak]

yep, got that on too

 

[Bish]

My MB won't boot to scsi at all (any device) when I have an ide drive attached. I think the IDE takes priority before SCSI when present.

Bsh

 

[pdo]

I also have a 2940U and I couldn't get it to boot either from my Plextor either.

 

[AMDfreak]

Well, at least I'm not alone. Bish, I would tend to agree with you, but I thought the purpose of setting the boot order in the mobo BIOS was to get around this. In theory anyway. Hasn't anyone had any luck getting this to work?

 

[geoff2k]

Most of my experience is with 2940UW/2940U2W cards, and they will flag a CD as bootable when they are scanning the drive at card initialization time. Does it say anything about having detected a bootable CDROM in the drive?

 

[AMDfreak]

no I never saw any message like that. I'm going to try and get hold of some more bootable CD's and see what happens