Booting A Dimension XPS120c From CDROM

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HELP! My Dell Dimension XPS120c won't boot from CD-ROM!

I've checked my BIOS settings and the 'Boot Sequence' setting is set
to 'CD-ROM First'. The CD is indeed bootable, and the BIOS is the
newest available from Dell (A06).

This error is keeping me from fixing a FreeBSD installation; please HELP!

 

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If the drive is the same age as the system, it may have failed.
Will the drive read a CD if you make a boot floppy using some form of
rawrite?



"Rishi Chopra" <rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu> wrote in message
news:77354138.0405311436.37e36254@posting.google.com...
> HELP! My Dell Dimension XPS120c won't boot from CD-ROM!
>
> I've checked my BIOS settings and the 'Boot Sequence' setting is set
> to 'CD-ROM First'. The CD is indeed bootable, and the BIOS is the
> newest available from Dell (A06).
>
> This error is keeping me from fixing a FreeBSD installation; please HELP!

 

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I have several old computers that will boot to a CD with Smart Boot
Manager.


http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/index.php3?body=download.html


Brian


"Rishi Chopra" <rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu> wrote in message
news:77354138.0405311436.37e36254@posting.google.com...
> HELP! My Dell Dimension XPS120c won't boot from CD-ROM!
>
> I've checked my BIOS settings and the 'Boot Sequence' setting is set
> to 'CD-ROM First'. The CD is indeed bootable, and the BIOS is the
> newest available from Dell (A06).
>
> This error is keeping me from fixing a FreeBSD installation; please HELP!