Hi Felix;
Glad it worked. I don't know about the floppy access time issue. When
I use btmgr on some pretty old Dells it doesn't seem out of the
ordinary (for those machines anyway). I don't think you can make a
btmgr boot disk that still has a fat file system. Why does it matter?
Are you trying to load it with other files?
--Jeff
On Fri Jan 06, 2006 at 05:53:34PM +0100, Felix He? wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> I can't believe, your trick worked! My Computer is booting now from the
> CD-drive. It's fantastic. Thank you very much.
> I was sure that this problem was because of wrong IO-Ports or something
> like that ...
>
> But there are two remaining questions:
> When booting, after the BIOS-checks, it takes about 10 seconds during
> which I can only see a blinking courser in the upper left corner, until
> the bootmanager menu appears. During that time there is no access to the
> floppy.
> I remember in fli4l (German Linux Distribution for a Router,
> www.fli4l.de) there was a syslinux-option to speed up the floppy access.
> Without this option there was the 10 second break, with the option this
> break disappeared.
> Is there something similar for btmgr?
>
> Second question:
> After installing btmgr to a floppy it works fine, but the
> FAT12-Filesystem on the floppy is destroyed. Is there a way to install
> btmgr to a floppy and keep its filesystem usable?
>
> Thank you very much
> Felix
>
>
> Am Freitag, den 06.01.2006, 05:28 -0800 schrieb Jeff Cunningham:
> > I've seen problems like that where it was the cdrom drive which wouldn't
> > work with btmgr. As an experiment, try temporarily hooking the cdrom drive
> > that worked to the old machine.
> >
> > --Jeff
> >
> > On Fri Jan 06, 2006 at 09:57:46AM +0200, Rob Townley wrote:
> > > I suppose you already performed any available BIOS udates from the
> > > manufacturer.
> > >
> > > On 5 Jan 2006 22:48:20 -0000,
> > > btmgr-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > > > 1. CD-Boot on Siemens PCD-5H (Pentium 1, 100 MHz)
> > > > From: Felix Heß <felix.hess-Mmb7MZpHnFY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ________________________________________________________________________
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> > > > Message: 1
> > > > Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:33:36 +0100
> > > > From: Felix Heß <felix.hess-Mmb7MZpHnFY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Subject: CD-Boot on Siemens PCD-5H (Pentium 1, 100 MHz)
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I want to make my old Siemens-PC bootable from CD-ROM. Therefore I
> > > > installed SBM to a floppy and booted the floppy. But there was no
> > > > menu-entry for my CD-ROM. I tried to enter the IO-Ports but it neighter
> > > > worked.
> > > > So here are some facts about the system:
> > > > Siemens PCD-5H,
> > > > CDROM works under Win98 SE, in the BIOS it is marked as "Secondary
> > > > IDE-Controller, Master: [NONE]" (BIOS has no entry like CDROM)
> > > > The Windows Hardware-Manager says the IDE-Controller uses these ports:
> > > > "01F0-01F7, 03F6-03F6", but if I use these in SBM nothing happens.
> > > >
> > > > I have tested the floppy + Boot-CD on a more modern Siemens PC where the
> > > > BIOS recognices the CDROM: On that PC it works fine.
> > > >
> > > > I would appreciate it if you could help me.
> > > >
> > > > Yours
> > > > Felix
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