Re: [Sheflug] Booting from CD on Toshiba laptop

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

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

Nowt wrong with DOS ... spent many days hacking assembler in it :)

> 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?
> 

Remember: DOS is only a bear-bones system ... it gives no more than access 
to keyboard, video, serial, parallel port, floopy and hard drives. To get 
anything useful from anything beyond that basic hardware, you need drivers 
and/or TSR's to handle extra stuff.

So you need to hunt for the drivers (if you have a disk with them, or try 
the Toshiba web site) and edit CONFIG.SYS and/or AUTOEXEC.BAT accordingly. 
Usually this'll conists of a driver to be loaded in CONFIG.SYS and a line 
in AUTOEXEC.BAT calling MSCDEX.EXE.

Now as for why it won't boot the CD -- I can't answer that :) But that's 
why it doesn't work in DOS.

Chris...

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