You don't need to get into the operating system to update your bios. Read the screen carefully while booting. It comes and goes quickly but usually DEL or F2 gets you into bios setup. If it doesn't boot from CDROM then I'd guess the guys above are right. Go into the bios setup and change the boot order to include the CDROM.
On a server it is typical to disable that after OS install to make the server boot faster on a restart. For a production server a slow boot up is lost production time.
Last edited by David Dreezer; 06/27/2010 5:42 PM.