Booting From CDRom drive

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Quoting Duane Attaway <dattaway at dattaway.org>: 
 
> The BIOS in some computers, such as my Toshiba laptop, weren't programmed 
> to recognize the larger "floppy boot images" that are used in the bootable 
> cdroms.  It seems redhat used a 2.4MB boot floppy image to make their 
> cdroms bootable, breaking the ability for me to boot off their 
> distribution.  So, I had to use a floppy. 
 
Often a flash update of the BIOS will solve little problems like that. 

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