Booting from a CDROM on IDE 3/4

[Keen]

Has anyone else here tried it? I was able to do it several times using the WinXP CD. After it detects the CDROM drives, a message pops up that says to hit the space bar to boot off of the CD.

 

[crazyman]

Has anyone else here tried it? I was able to do it several times using the WinXP CD. After it detects the CDROM drives, a message pops up that says to hit the space bar to boot off of the CD.

no,I have not tried it,I assumed it could'nt be done,after reading the manual.I put my cdrom on ide 2,and my burner on 3,so I could boot from the cdrom if I needed to.maybe xp is different,I use win2k pro.But thats interesting info,thanks>

 

[knack4it]

Could you please elaborate a little more? I am interested to hear how this is accomplished, as I had 4 optical drives on ide3/4 and was not able to do that, even with the xp cd. Please tell the tale.

Later.

 

[Keen]

I set up one drive on ide 3/4 each. I properly set up the cables and the jumpers (set both to master put them at the end of the UDMA66 cables). In the BIOS, I set the RAID/ATA & SCSI boot order option to RAID, SCSI. Set boot other device to Disabled. I have boot first device set to HDD-0. When you boot up with the disc in the drive (I had the disc on IDE 3), you'll have to press a key when it asks you to, then it'll boot up.

 

[LiquidConfusion]

Mine is setup very similar both at master both at the end of the cable and I was able to boot from it using the esc key feature also make sure you have your bios set to be able to boot from an alternate device
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[Keen]

I didn't have to hit esc, the thing prompted me to boot off the CD.

 

[LiquidConfusion]

do you have the cdrom set as your primary boot device or hdd-0? Mine is set on hdd-0 thats why I have to hit the esc key I do that for a slightly faster boot

 

[Keen]

I set up one drive on ide 3/4 each. I properly set up the cables and the jumpers (set both to master put them at the end of the UDMA66 cables). In the BIOS, I set the RAID/ATA & SCSI boot order option to RAID, SCSI. Set boot other device to Disabled. I have boot first device set to HDD-0. When you boot up with the disc in the drive (I had the disc on IDE 3), you'll have to press a key when it asks you to, then it'll boot up.

This is how I had things set up when I recently booted off the WinXP CD.

 

[LiquidConfusion]

according to page 51 of the manual you cant boot off cd-rom from ide 3+4... Ive managed to do it using the esc key maybe yours just wont do it...