[ltp] Re: Booting from a portable drive bay?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Reading CDs from this little beauty works just fine, but it only
> powers up during the later stages of Linux booting.  It does _not_
> power up while I am in the BIOS, so I can't boot from said CD drive.
> Soft rebooting does not work either (I had hoped it would).

Why exactly do you need to boot from the CD drive?
If you have Linux installed and can boot from it...


        Stefan