Booting from CDROM drive

[Jon.moss]

   Jonathon,

   Thanks I will also see if their is a BIOS update for this old Compaq
   tower.

   Thanks again - Jon

   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.