[SWLUG] Dell boot problem

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On Thursday 20 August 2009 18:48:14 Phillip Evans wrote:
> I think the CD drive is OK as when the machine is switched on, the CD
> light flashes a few times as the system finds it & it also flashes &
> whirs for a few seconds when a disk is inserted all seemingly as normal.

is there a floppy drive? you could try smartbootmanager
http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/

this allows booting from cd where the hardware doesn't directly allow it

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