Problem booting AMD Athlon XP 2200+ from CDROM

[Matthew Dillon]

:--- Matthew Dillon <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:>     Try physically disconnecting the hard drive, revert the BIOS to its normal
:>     mode of operation, and then see if the CD will boot.  
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:Without a hard drive at all?
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:Also, the BIOS settings didn't change.  But after POST, if I hold down F8 I can get a
:list of devices to boot from.  That's what I did when my floppy failed and stopped the
:POST.
:
:jonathon

    Some BIOSes get confused when a hard drive with a semi-broken slice table
    (or one containing non-windows slices) exists.  There have been numerous
    occassions where I have had to remove a FreeBSD HD that was in dangerously 
    dedicated mode in order to boot from CD. 

    So its worth a shot.

						-Matt