Solve : boot to cd setting?

1.	Solve : boot to cd setting?
Answer» I am working with a computer recycler and a machine is causing me mild grief. It is an IBM x-series 206, running server 2003. As part of our process we WIPE the drives, reinstall and try to sell them. Keeps all those nasty metals out of the landfill. Anyway, I went into the bios and changed the first boot device to the cd, second was the floppy and third the HARD drive. Put the wiping cd in the drive, exited the bios and it booted into Windows. Checked again and the first was still the cd. Changed the cd for a newer dvdrw, check the bios again, put the cd in the drive, exited the bios and it booted into Windows. Burned a new cd with the same results. I could simply switch the hard drives, but that seems a little defeatist to me. I really want to find the setting that is PREVENTING my booting from the cd. What am I missing?Replace the CMOS battery...it may not be retaining the changes upon reboot.... You are pressing F10 to "SAVE and exit with changes" correct ? ?Yeah, f10 and save changes. The changes made stay made, I don't have to redo them, they just do not take effect. How many drives are in it and what kind are they? IDE...SATA.... I think there are 2 or 3 SATA drives in there. I am not at the recycle location but will check to make sure and let you know.ok, there are three SATA drives in the server, 80gb each. Try another optical drive... Quote from: Kando on April 13, 2011, 02:56:39 PM Checked again and the first was still the cd. Changed the cd for a newer dvdrw, check the bios again, put the cd in the drive, exited the bios and it booted into Windows. Burned a new cd with the same results. I changed the first cd drive that it came with and put in a newer dvdrw drive. Both drives work, I tested the cd drive in another machine, and pulled the dvdrw from a working machine.What bootdisk are you using and how did you create it ? ?I have tried Ubuntu 10.10, UBCD and WinXP Pro. I made new disks of all of them to avoid scratches. Quote from: patio on April 19, 2011, 10:13:21 AM What bootdisk are you using and how did you create it ? ? You can't simply "copy" a bootable CD...doesn't work. Quote from: patio on April 19, 2011, 01:58:30 PM You can't simply "copy" a bootable CD...doesn't work. I am way past the point of thinking I can copy a disk image to cd and wondering why it is not working. By "made new disks" I meant I burned the .iso and CREATED a bootable cd, then I restarted the computer with the cd inserted, after I made the dvdrw the first boot device. Now, about original problem...

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I am working with a computer recycler and a machine is causing me mild grief. It is an IBM x-series 206, running server 2003. As part of our process we WIPE the drives, reinstall and try to sell them. Keeps all those nasty metals out of the landfill.

Anyway, I went into the bios and changed the first boot device to the cd, second was the floppy and third the HARD drive. Put the wiping cd in the drive, exited the bios and it booted into Windows.

Checked again and the first was still the cd. Changed the cd for a newer dvdrw, check the bios again, put the cd in the drive, exited the bios and it booted into Windows. Burned a new cd with the same results.

I could simply switch the hard drives, but that seems a little defeatist to me. I really want to find the setting that is PREVENTING my booting from the cd.

What am I missing?Replace the CMOS battery...it may not be retaining the changes upon reboot....
You are pressing F10 to "SAVE and exit with changes" correct ? ?Yeah, f10 and save changes.

The changes made stay made, I don't have to redo them, they just do not take effect.
How many drives are in it and what kind are they?

IDE...SATA....

I think there are 2 or 3 SATA drives in there. I am not at the recycle location but will check to make sure and let you know.ok, there are three SATA drives in the server, 80gb each. Try another optical drive... Quote from: Kando on April 13, 2011, 02:56:39 PM

Checked again and the first was still the cd. Changed the cd for a newer dvdrw, check the bios again, put the cd in the drive, exited the bios and it booted into Windows. Burned a new cd with the same results.

I changed the first cd drive that it came with and put in a newer dvdrw drive. Both drives work, I tested the cd drive in another machine, and pulled the dvdrw from a working machine.What bootdisk are you using and how did you create it ? ?I have tried Ubuntu 10.10, UBCD and WinXP Pro. I made new disks of all of them to avoid scratches. Quote from: patio on April 19, 2011, 10:13:21 AM

What bootdisk are you using and how did you create it ? ?

You can't simply "copy" a bootable CD...doesn't work. Quote from: patio on April 19, 2011, 01:58:30 PM

You can't simply "copy" a bootable CD...doesn't work.

I am way past the point of thinking I can copy a disk image to cd and wondering why it is not working.

By "made new disks" I meant I burned the .iso and CREATED a bootable cd, then I restarted the computer with the cd inserted, after I made the dvdrw the first boot device.

Now, about original problem...

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