Boot from hdd to cd-rom :s

[PoloDude]

Yow, I got a little problem

I've got this device here on wich I want to install some kind of windows, but it has no bootscreen It's a whole embeded system, so no changeble processor and stuff.

Now my problem is this: I need to boot from cd to install my system, but I can't seem to change that anywhere :s So would it be possible to boot from the hdd to the cd?

Thx in advanced!

Grtz

[betadan]

can you post a link to some more information on the device?

[PoloDude]

Not much, can give you a photo from the mobo, but i don't got any specific hardware specs

Here's a pic from the mobo DSR2002

Grtz

[Nanaki]

What do you see when you turn on the system?

ot: you live in one hell of a town. ^^

[jaclaz]

From the picture, the BIOS is made by "dzine Belgium":

http://www.dzine.be/

This could be your "thingy":

http://www.dzine.be/products/dsr/dsr2002.htm

maybe contacting their support would help.

(it is also possible that to access the BIOS setup you need to put on a jumper or something)

jaclaz

Edited August 11, 2005 by jaclaz

[PoloDude]

What do you see when you turn on the system?

ot: you live in one hell of a town. ^^

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I don't see sh*t

And indeed, I live in one hell of a town

To jaclaz: I've contacted dZine couple of months ago, think there all dead...

But I looked for a jumper, changed it and I see the bios setup

Thx!

Just one sad thing, can't seem to boot from cd-rom, need to boot from floppy, but there isn't one, fun fun ...

Edited August 12, 2005 by PoloDude

[Nanaki]

Maybe flash your BIOS to the latest version?

[jaclaz]

But I looked for a jumper, changed it and I see the bios setup

Thx!

Just one sad thing, can't seem to boot from cd-rom, need to boot from floppy, but there isn't one, fun fun ...

You mean that you don't have an option in the BIOS to boot from CD-ROM or that a bootable CD-ROM does not work?

If, as I expect, there are two IDE connectors, you could always use an old HD with DOS/WIN98 files to boot it, make the resident HD bootable, then boot from the resident HD and installing from DOS with the files on the CD.

I suppose that getting the proper drivers would be difficult, same as

Maybe flash your BIOS to the latest version?

since they do not respond to your mails?

jaclaz

[Nanaki]

Well, there are basically four big BIOS-distributors, so why not?

[PoloDude]

I found some kind of solution

As I said, i got the bios-screen working by changing a jumper (it's a phoenix bios), since there was no option to boot from cd I inserted the hdd into an other computer, formated it, and filed it with the files I needed to install windows 98.

That didn't work at first (jumper setting from hdd wrong :?, saw that later), so I did it an other way, took a pc with 1 hdd and replaced it with the one in the pc that doesn't boot from cd, and started an install of windows Xp, after the first reboot I changed the hdd again and was hoping that it would install properly.

Hoping indeed, cause it seems that there isn't enough memory

And since SIMMS are to expencive for what they are, I'm going to go see if someone has an old pc they don't use anymore, and use their memory

And if that doesn't work, well, I guess I gonna install linux

Thx for all the help!

[os2fan2]

Also handy is the several boot diskettes that start the cd-boot. Handy if you don't want to fiddle the bios, eg boot first from cd and then from hd.

http://bootcd.narod.ru/index_e.htm has a boot-cd-from-floppy loader

also: http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/bootdisk.htm has an older version (oldbios.exe).

try also: http://btmgr.webframe.org/

Wendy

[PoloDude]

Also handy is the several boot diskettes that start the cd-boot.  Handy if you don't want to fiddle the bios, eg boot first from cd and then from hd.

There's no connection for floppy disk

And I can't seem to update the bios anyway, cause it's some kind of programmable bios :s