Re: Trouble booting FC5 from DVD - Resolved

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On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 15:10 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 25 March 2006 14:37, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >On Saturday 25 March 2006 18:40, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >> Some BIOSes specify the CD/DVD drive in the "boot order" part of the
> >> setup menu, others (some Dells I've used) have a separate menu (the
> >> Dells use F12 to access it at boot time) which lets you boot from
> >> CD, USB etc. You'll need to poke around your BIOS menus anyway.
> >
> >When you boot up, most motherboards show a spash screen for a couple
> > of seconds, then start checking the ram (some people switch off these
> > features, but they are usually the default).  At that point there are
> > a couple of seconds only when a message is displayed at the bottom of
> > the screen that tells you how to get to the BIOS settings.  Hitting
> > Delete is a common one, with F2 as probably the second most common. 
> > If you get to the right key in time it will finish the checks then
> > open up the BIOS screens.  Read through them - they may surprise you,
> > and you never know when someone will ask you something related to
> > that.
> >
> Unforch, Compaq makes that impossible as they cover all that with a 
> bootsplash 'Compaq' in big red letters, and you have to hit F keys 
> randomly, and rapidly in order to get to what they euphamisticly call a 
> bios, but other than clock setting and boot order on the one I have on 
> the bench ATM, not much else is adjustable.  Oh, and fast boot or check 
> memory, I set that on the one time I hit it by accident, so now I have 
> about 7 seconds to find the magic twangers pitch.  Compaq=PITA, with 
> broken legs.
> 
> >In my experience the settings for boot order are usually on about the
> > third page, often labelled Advanced or something similar.
> >
> >One thing that would be very useful is for you to make a note of the
> > BIOS maker and version.  Sometimes it helps people to help you if you
> > can give them that information.
> >
> >As for why it no longer boots from the CD/DVD - it's likely that
> > someone who has done some job for you on the computer changed the
> > setting.  Many people feel that it is safer for the default to be to
> > boot from the first hard drive.
> 
> That too, paranoia.  But it keeps the kids from bringing in their games 
> on infected cd's & floppies.  Until they learn the trick and change it 
> back when you're not looking...
> 
> But we have the ultimate revenge, when we find games, porn or pie-rat 
> music on a business machine, we don't care who's it is, it gets 
> formatted & only what they need for that machines job reinstalled. The 
> normal user of that one is warned including a note in the personel file 
> the 1st time, 2nd time gets even more interesting, 3rd time discharged.
> 
> >Anne
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene

Thanks All - I found the bios menu with the F2 key.  I had to change the
default to look at the CD/DVD drive before booting from disk.  Not sure
how or when it changed.

So I'm on FC5 now!  Very easy install.  FC5 - Very Cool!

Cheers!  and thanks for your responses - fred v.
> 


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