On 9 Nov 99, at 22:06, Bill Nussbaumer wrote:

> 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?

  Any EIDE/ATAPI CD-ROM *drive* should work, but of course the disk
you have in the drive must be bootable.  That's a bit funky -- making
a bootable CD involves writing an image of a boot floppy to the start
of the drive....

David G

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