It will work as long as:
1) BIOS supports it and turned on (like you did)
2) BIOS has to detect the CDROM at boot, therefore, use "AUTO" detect for IDE
devices, otherwise it won't see the CD.
3) The CD disk has to be bootable, eg Win98, NT4 (win95 is not)

Jun Qian

Bill Nussbaumer wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to boot my computer from the CD-ROM.  I have an Abit BH6
> motherboard and a Hi-Val 32X CDROM (not sure the model right off).  I set
> the CMOS to boot - CDROM, C, A but when I restart the computer it boots
> from C:.
>
> Is it necessary to have a CDROM specially designed for this purpose of
> should any CD-ROM work so long as the feature is supported in the BIOS?

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