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Re: [Sheflug] Booting from CD on Toshiba laptop
Hi Barrie,
The chances are it just isn't recognising your CD as being bootable. Have
you tried a different CD - say a windoze 98 one? At least that would give
you more of a clue whether the CD is working or not.
Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK
www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>
To: <shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk>
Sent: 23 August 2001 22:00
Subject: [Sheflug] Booting from CD on Toshiba laptop
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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