Bit of a weird problem.
I have an oldish machine that I'm using as a fileserver. It'll happily boot from the CD-ROM, but refuses to boot from an IDE DVD-RW drive. It's found in the bios, and also found in Windows (and is able to read from it etc). The boot order settings are correct (it does seem to try and read from the device - the green light flashes). I've tried both DVDs and CDs, and they all work in the same drive in my main machine.
I've had a look in the bios for any settings, but nothing stands out (and to reiterate, the bios seems to see the drive fine).
I'm at a loss as to why the damn fileserver refuses too boot from it, when my main machine will!
I have an oldish machine that I'm using as a fileserver. It'll happily boot from the CD-ROM, but refuses to boot from an IDE DVD-RW drive. It's found in the bios, and also found in Windows (and is able to read from it etc). The boot order settings are correct (it does seem to try and read from the device - the green light flashes). I've tried both DVDs and CDs, and they all work in the same drive in my main machine.
I've had a look in the bios for any settings, but nothing stands out (and to reiterate, the bios seems to see the drive fine).
I'm at a loss as to why the damn fileserver refuses too boot from it, when my main machine will!
