[Sheflug] Booting from CD on Toshiba laptop

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

Well,

I've finally managed to get a laptop at a reasonable price - a Toshiba
Satellite Pro 440CDX for £100.

However, I've been unable to boot my Debian Potato CD on the machine.

** Health warning - I mention DOS below :-) **

I've set the CDROM as the first boot device in BIOS, and checked all
the other settings, however the machine still dumps me at the
Win95/DOS prompt (machine has been formatted. No files except
command.com).

The machine does briefly access the CDROM before going onto the HDD to
boot.

Attempting to cd to d: in DOS gives bad drive specification (tried a
bunch of other letters too - no joy). 
Is the CD dead, or is there something funny I'm missing here?

A quick answer would be appreciated, so I go back and speak with the
shop tomorrow.

Thanks in advance,

Baz.
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Barrie J. Bremner		OpenPGP public key ID: 5164F553
baz [at] barriebremner.com	http://barriebremner.com/


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