[SLL] Need diskette that boots from CDROM

[Pann McCuaig]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 07:50, Tim Maher wrote:

> I have an old machine with a BIOS that only provides "boot from floppy
> disk" and "boot from hard-disk" options, which I'd like to boot from
> its IDE/ATAPI CDROM.
> 
> At one time, I had a special floppy that I downloaded from the
> Internet that caused the floppy to boot from the CD, which is exactly
> what I want to do. But despite extensive Googling, I haven't been
> able to find this kind of floppy (image) on the 'net today.

"extensive Googling"? I googled "floppy boot cdrom" and the fourth hit was

http://rescup.winbuilder.net/bootdisk/

A quick read suggests that it will do what you want.

> Does somebody know where I can get a floppy that effectively redirects
> the boot operation to a CDROM?
> 
> TIA,
> Tim
> P.S. I /will/ get around to updating the BIOS on that machine someday;
>      really, I promise!
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