"No emulation type for CD-ROM"

[Bob]

I am getting the message "No emulation type for CD-ROM" when I enable
boot from CD and have my Win2000 Pro CD in the drive. The system is
p2b based, rev 1.10+, latest BIOS with a 1.4g Tat installed. I have
another identical system and the message does not appear. I can "press
the any key" within a few seconds and still boot from the CD but this
is odd.

What's causing this? How can I correct it?

 

[P2B]

I am getting the message "No emulation type for CD-ROM" when I enable
boot from CD and have my Win2000 Pro CD in the drive. The system is
p2b based, rev 1.10+, latest BIOS with a 1.4g Tat installed. I have
another identical system and the message does not appear. I can "press
the any key" within a few seconds and still boot from the CD but this
is odd.

What's causing this? How can I correct it?

The El Torito bootable CD-ROM specification provides for floppy
emulation, hard disk emulation, or no emulation.

The W2K CD uses no emulation, and the BIOS is telling you so after it
looks at the boot sector. It isn't an error, so I doubt you can
"correct" it - but it is odd as my P2Bs don't display the message.

P2B

 

[Daniel Mandic]

I am getting the message "No emulation type for CD-ROM" when I enable
boot from CD and have my Win2000 Pro CD in the drive. The system is
p2b based, rev 1.10+, latest BIOS with a 1.4g Tat installed. I have
another identical system and the message does not appear. I can "press
the any key" within a few seconds and still boot from the CD but this
is odd.

What's causing this? How can I correct it?

Hi Bob!



Have you tried the other CD-ROM?

I remember CD-ROM Drives being bootable (24x ATAPI) but it did´nt. I
have had to use a 50x ASUS, and after installing NT, changing again. .-(
Well, I could have use Boot-Disks. There is a MAKEBOOT.EXE on the
windows 2000 CD... you could make install disks for the 3.5" Floppy
Drive.




Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic

 

[Mike Foss]

The El Torito bootable CD-ROM specification provides for floppy
emulation, hard disk emulation, or no emulation.

The W2K CD uses no emulation, and the BIOS is telling you so after it
looks at the boot sector. It isn't an error, so I doubt you can
"correct" it - but it is odd as my P2Bs don't display the message.

That's correct. Asus should have changed the message to
something like "CD Boot type: No Drive Emulation" to
avoid people thinking it's an error message.

 

[Bob]

That's correct. Asus should have changed the message to
something like "CD Boot type: No Drive Emulation" to
avoid people thinking it's an error message.

Thanks... this is odd as my other P2b system(s) - which I think are
truly identical down to the component level - don't do it. When I have
the time I will do some more checking to see if I can find any
differences in them.

 

[Mike Foss]

Thanks... this is odd as my other P2b system(s) - which I think are
truly identical down to the component level - don't do it. When I have
the time I will do some more checking to see if I can find any
differences in them.

Compare system bios versions. It's also possible the message is
being issued from the CD drive -- you can find out by moving the
drive to a different system.