From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 20 03:27:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B24616A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:27:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.wanadoo.fr (smtp1.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 376D643D49 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:27:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (abq-mx-99.ihighway.net [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0112.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1DEDE1C00610 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:27:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf0112.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 01C941C0060E for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:27:17 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050120032718741.01C941C0060E@mwinf0112.wanadoo.fr Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:27:17 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <791901876.20050120042717@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1106168893.2508.229.camel@chaucer> References: <1498696253.20050119202447@wanadoo.fr> <20050119194228.7248.qmail@web51004.mail.yahoo.com> <515597134.20050119211009@wanadoo.fr> <1106168893.2508.229.camel@chaucer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:27:19 -0000 Mike Jeays writes: MJ> I presume you have tried changing the boot order in the BIOS settings? MJ> You should be able to make the CD or floppy drive come ahead of the hard MJ> disk in the boot sequence. Yes, I've tried lots of stuff. It's a HP motherboard and apparently a HP BIOS. I've tried all sorts of variations on boot order and enabling and disabling of boot devices. The structure of the BIOS options makes it clear that it should be possible to boot selectively from either diskette or CD, but I can't get either of these to work; it won't boot from CD unless diskette boot is also activated, and it won't boot from diskette because it says it cannot see the floppy disk reader. I don't know what's going on. The machine has been running for so long that I don't remember much about how to configure the BIOS! -- Anthony