| Art Alexion on 10 Jan 2007 18:25:18 -0000 |
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On Saturday 06 January 2007 17:42, Art Alexion wrote: > On Saturday 06 January 2007 10:20, Tim Cwik wrote: > > On 2007.01.05 21:29, Art Alexion wrote: > > > I am trying to help a friend set up a new Compaq over the phone. I > > > can't see > > > his bios setup screens. > > > > .... > > > > > When he took it home and started it, it wants to boot from the IDE > > > drive first, thus booting his old OS tuned for incompatible hardware. > > > > > > As he reads the bios screens to me, it seems he can change the boot > > > sequence > > > among the "floppy group", the "CD-Rom group" and the "HDD group", but > > > he can't > > > find a setting to change the sequence within these groups. > > > > ... > > The is usually a way to select the group, perhaps with right arrow or > > enter when the group is highlighted and then change the order of members > > of the group. This lets you put ide-0, ide-1, etc in the order you want > > them. > > That's what I was thinking, but he said "no" as I talked him through it > over the phone. I am going to have to go over there and take a look > myself. I was hoping someone might have had to deal with this on a Compaq > recently. > > Thanks for the help. Would it work to just make the intended IDE data disc unbootable in fdsk? Then when it would just move on to the next priorty device, hopefully the firewire disc, and boot from it? -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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