Tyan Thunder 251x V1.03 and booting off cd

External Since: Jul 04, 2004 Posts: 2

I just bought three identical second user 1U servers. The have Tyan
Thunder 251x V1.03 motherboards and are running Amibios 7.00. The
servers all have an ATAPI CDROM and floppy.

My problem is that none of the servers will boot off cdrom regardless
of what settings I place in the BIOS boot order. I have tried various
combinations but they all refuse to boot and I am left with a flashing
cursor in the top left hand corner of the screen. I have triple
checked that the CD's are bootable. I have also checked the CDROMs
actually work by using a bootable floppy.

I'm obviously doing something very wrong somewhere - anyone got any
ideas?

External Since: Jun 06, 2004 Posts: 17

"Dave Campbell" <dave.RemoveThis@cpfc.org> wrote in message
news:2d643eb4.0407040756.6b50641a@posting.google.com...
> I just bought three identical second user 1U servers. The have Tyan
> Thunder 251x V1.03 motherboards and are running Amibios 7.00. The
> servers all have an ATAPI CDROM and floppy.
>
> My problem is that none of the servers will boot off cdrom regardless
> of what settings I place in the BIOS boot order. I have tried various
> combinations but they all refuse to boot and I am left with a flashing
> cursor in the top left hand corner of the screen. I have triple
> checked that the CD's are bootable. I have also checked the CDROMs
> actually work by using a bootable floppy.
>
> I'm obviously doing something very wrong somewhere - anyone got any
> ideas?

the cdrom drives may not be bootable, this is only likely if 4x or slower
also, there may be a switch in bios along the lines of ' allow alternate
boot device'
dr ratt