Hello Bill,

Wednesday, November 10, 1999, 5:06:58 AM, you wrote:

BN> Hi all,

BN> I'm trying to boot my computer from the CD-ROM.  I have an Abit BH6
BN> motherboard and a Hi-Val 32X CDROM (not sure the model right off).  I set
BN> the CMOS to boot - CDROM, C, A but when I restart the computer it boots
BN> from C:.

BN> Is it necessary to have a CDROM specially designed for this purpose of
BN> should any CD-ROM work so long as the feature is supported in the BIOS?

The BIOS should show your CD-ROM in hard disk drive table for this to
work. If the CD-rom is not detected by BIOS the bootup will not be
possible since BIOS doesn't know how to interact with the drive.

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