Re: AdvanceCD Does Not Boot

2008/11/5 Robinson, Eric <eric.robinson-JiDY2OCN/[email protected]>:
>> OK. Then please explain how far in the booting process you get.
>
> There's not much to say. The PC does not see the CDROM as bootable, so I never get the message that says, "Press a key to boot from CD." It just goes right past the POST and boots from drive C. Other bootable CD-ROMS boot fine.
>

> Normally I would agree with you that I must be doing something wrong, but I am following the exact same procedure for all ISOs.

I still think you are doing something wrong because advancecd boots
for anyone else.

>
> If you want to check me out on this, you can watch the following screen capture of me actually creating the bootable CD.
>
> http://www.psmnv.com/downloads/create_advcd.avi

I downloaded this movie and it looks like you are not adding any files
to the images.
>From advcd.txt
"
5 ADDING YOUR FILES
===================

Before creating the disk image you must copy your roms and other
files under the image/arcade/ directory.

Generally you need only to add roms in the image/arcade/rom directory
and snapshots in the image/arcade/snap directory.

Eventually you can also add other files in the following
directories:

For AdvanceMAME:
    image/arcade/rom - The .zip roms.
    image/arcade/image - The .chd harddisk images.
    image/arcade/diff - The .dif harddisk differential images.
    image/arcade/sample - The .zip samples.
    image/arcade/artwork - The .zip artworks.
    image/arcade/bezel - The .zip bezels.

For AdvanceMESS:
    image/arcade/bios - The .zip bios.
    image/arcade/software - The .zip software.

For AdvanceMENU:
    image/arcade/snap - The .png, .mp3, .mng snaps.
    image/arcade/flyer - The .png flyers.
    image/arcade/marquee - The .png marquees.
    image/arcade/cabinet - The .png cabinets.
    image/arcade/icon - The .ico icons.
    image/arcade/music - The background .mp3 music.
"

Anyway check that you can boot from a bootable cd on your machine.

/Martin

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