Old 486 Board for ECU??

[Matt Cramer]

At 02:58 PM 4/29/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>
>-> Every BIOS I have ever dealt with won't boot without a hard drive.
>
> ?Que?
>
> Any IBM-standard PC will check for a bootable floppy first, then looks
>for a ROM indicating a bootable device at $C800.  Some clones will let
>you reverse the order or disable floppy boot entirely though.
> 
	I've even had a PC clone with a BIOS which had an option of booting from
the CD-ROM drive.  Never tried it as I don't have any CD-ROMS that would be
bootable, but apparently it can be done.

Matt Cramer
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