Can't get CDROM to boot, even with SmartBoot

[Jonathon McKitrick]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:02:56PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:     This isn't really helpful.  Describe the machine... what is it?  How
:     old is it?  This kinda sounds like an El-torito CD boot issue in
:     which case the first thing I would do is check to see if any
:     BIOS upgrades are available for the box.

It was put together for me less than 2 years ago.
It's an AMD... well, here's some more detail:

CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ (1799.70-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x680  Stepping = 0
    Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CM
    OV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
      AMD Features=0xc0400000<AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
      real memory  = 503250944 (491456K bytes)
      avail memory = 486903808 (475492K bytes)
      Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02ad000.
      Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled

atapci0: <VIA 8235 ATA133 controller> port 0xdc00-0xdc0f at device 17.1 on
pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0

d2: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
ad2: 38166MB <WDC WD400BB-00DEA0> [77545/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
acd0: CD-RW <LITE-ON LTR-52246S> at ata0-slave PIO4



Jonathon
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