Newbie-ish Question Redux

[Jeffrey R Perry]

I'm still trying to make this thing work 2 weeks later between work and
interning on a PeopleSoft implementation team. I gotta get a 
Anyway this is the hardware list from Boot.

(541WUB0D) Award Modular Bios v4.50PG

Intel I430FX PCIset(TM)

Pentium-S CPU at 166MHZ

AdvanSys SCSI PCI Bus Host Adapter found @ i/o address Ox6000

ID #0 Seagate ST51080N 0913-DRIVE
ID #1 Toshiba CD-Rom xm-5401ta
ID #2 No Device Found
ID #3 No Device Found
ID #4 No Device Found
ID #5 No Device Found
ID #6 Quatum Fireball ST4.3S 0F0C - Drive 81H
ID #7 AdvanSys SCSI PCI Bus Host Adapter

Jonathan had suggested I should upgrade the bios. Is there a good HOWTO
somewhere that I could refer to? The instructions I've found seem to
require Windows.

Thanks for your patience,

Jeff

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:16:25 -0500 Jason Clinton <clintonj at umkc.edu>
writes:
> Assuming that you have booted from the CD, bootable CD's are 
> accomplished using
> the El Torrito standard which is effectively an image of a 1.4mb 
> floppy at the
> beginning of a CD that the BIOS reads and loads in to ram as an 
> opperating
> system. Once the BIOS lets go and lets the OS take over, if the OS 
> loaded
> doesn't have a driver for your CD-ROM drive, it may not go any 
> further.
> 
> What brand of CD-ROM drive do you own? Is it really old? Is it 
> connected through
> a sound card instead of the IDE cable?