Re: 600 / 770 won't boot from El Torito CD-ROM

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Tue May 18 1999 - 23:54:10 EDT

Stephen...

i tried making a bootable CD with the same results..
if you learn anything, please share it.. :-)

zzIML Thinkpad wrote:

> We created a custom bootable CD-ROM that meets the "El Torito" specification
> for bootable CD's....
>
> On all of our Thinkpad 600 / 770 machines, they won't boot! We have
> configured the BIOS so that boot order is A: , CD-ROM, then C: hard disk
> partition, but when we put our disc in it won't boot from it.
>
> The disc has a MS-DOS 6.22 OS created from a 525MB Hard Drive Image.
>
> 1: We are able to boot the same disc on all of our Hewlett Packard and
> Compaq desktop computers (we have no IBM desktop computers for testing).
> 2: The same IBM ThinkPads will boot a Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
> Workstation CD-ROM... I presume they also boot a Windows 98 CD-ROM, but I
> have not tried it.
>
> We have the latest available BIOS, I believe 12/16/98 is the date.
>
> Anyone have information to share on this subject?
>
> Stephen Gutknecht
> mailto:SGutknecht_at_i405.com
> Renton, Washington 

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