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From: Glenn <glennervin@cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: mixing media, was talking debian install.
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 10:30:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <691452C09AD148AE81656642FD0D5097@your2c061f0461> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201204091339.q39DdhCa023878@x.it.okstate.edu>

Well, I think the floppy is always there in front of the HD, so a bootloader 
on a floppy should fix that problem.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin McCormick" <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: mixing media, was talking debian install.


This discussion brings up a question. There is a most
annoying problem in Dell and possibly other BIOS' in which the
boot sequence reverts to one that puts the hard drive before
the CDROM. If the hard drive appears bootable but isn't or you
don't like what it does, you are out of luck

All the systems in question have usb ports but they are
not part of the boot selection. One of them has no floppy drive
although the BIOS still lists drive A indicating you could
probably add it temporarily.

Has anybody else had this happen and did you find a way
short of asking somebody to help you re-order the boot sequence,
to fix this problem?

I think the low-level code in the BIOS detects a problem
in the boot sequence at some time and resets itself but I am not
sure what triggers it. It has happened often enough on enough
different systems that I am pretty sure they were set properly
at first and then mysteriously re-order themselves some time
later.

One doesn't notice anything until it is time to try out
a live CD or use a CDROM in rescue mode at which time you
realize that it isn't going to happen just yet.

Gregory Nowak writes:
> Yes, this should still work, since the installer searches for media
> before actually starting to do the install. So, you should in fact be
> able to boot from an internal cd drive, and do the install from dvd in
> an external drive, provided debian recognizes the external drive,
> which it should. HTH.
>
> Greg
>
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Martin McCormick
 ` Kitty Litter
 ` Kerry Hoath
 ` Glenn [this message]
   ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Kerry Hoath
       ` Karen Lewellen
         ` Glenn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
 Martin McCormick
 ` Kerry Hoath
 Karen Lewellen
 ` Samuel Thibault
   ` Karen Lewellen
     ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Samuel Thibault
       ` Karen Lewellen
 ` Glenn

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