help wanted on how to boot from cd
 

help i have a problem i have an amiga 1200 with O.S 3.5 SCSI SURF SQUIRREL AND TOSHIBA CD-ROM drive 81 mb hd system works fine but i cannot boot direcly from a cd on startup it always loads the workbench first but i would like to be able to autoboot from cd i know theres a way to do this by modifiring the startup-sequence or user-startup but i do not know what to change since im not good at this sort of thing does can someone please help the jumper on the cd drive is set to 2 by the way thanks

WHAT exactly do you want to boot from CD ???

The Amiga needs to load a CDFileSystem first, before you can access the CDRom .... so booting from CD is not possible .... Anyway, there is a CD32 Emulator for the Amiga (Aminet ?) that can boot a CD32 Software CD by putting the CDFS Driver in Ram ...

I assume you have a driver disk that came with the Surf Squirrel. My Driver disk for the STANDARD Squirrel has a "Emulate CDTV" option, where the files required to boot from the CD ROM is placed on a floppy. You boot from the floppy (I assume this is where the drivers get loaded in RAM) and then It boots from the CD ROM. I don't know if this is the case with the Surf version, but I think I read somewhere that you could boot from it...... Try a Google search for more info.

thanks
 

thank you for ansering my question wil try to do what you suggest.

Isn't it possible to boot from cd with BPPC? Haven't tried it but there is a "CDRom Boot" option in the bootmenu. :nervous

i know its possible to do in the user-startup cause i remember i did it with the cu amiga cover discs i have found a program on aminet called mountcd but it dosent work and i think it is only for IDE drives does anyone know what to write in the user-startup to make a cd boot?