Re: Strange PEER error with Dani's 506 1.81 generic question

Mike Luther wrote:

To my experience if you are going to use the CD-ROM as a boot device, then
for all of the boxes I've built from scratch, it is true that the CD-ROM
device has to be the Master for the box to boot from it at all for
installation purposes or even for a boot run for that, if your boot device
roster proceeds from, say, Floppy Disk A:, thence to CD-ROM (Master),
thence to the hard disk device, whether that hard disk is an IDE or SCSI
hard drive.

Mike, I've got 4 boxes on this KVM switch and all 4 have the CD-ROM/DVD
drove as the slave on the second channel. All boot and install properly
with no hiccups (other than normal drive to drive pickiness). One of the
boxes goes even further: it has 2 SATA channels that are enumerated by the
BIOS ahead of the PATA channels and the PATA slave CD device on channel 2
as slave works as expected. Points for your research: 3 of the 4 are DELL
Optiplex models circa 2001 - 2002 vintage with the most recent Phoenix BIOS
on any of them dated 2004. The 4th is my new toy - Lenovo AMD Athlon
64x2 - also has a Phoenix BIOS but it is dated 9/13/2007.

Is this a possible BIOS characteristic? Also remember that OS/2 for years
required the CDROM to be jumpered as a slave even if it was the only device
on the second channel - wouldn't work otherwise.

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Will Honea

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