Re: XP Blocking CD Boot - Not So
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 09:26:04AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home
> Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system
> - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge
> installation set as a rescue disk to access hdb and run lilo to convert
> this box to a dual boot box.
>
> After XP was installed the system will no longer boot from a CD. Even
> after I entered BIOS setup and changed the first, second and third boot
> choices to CDROM the system still persists in booting from the hard drive.
>
> What can I do to regain control?
>
> Tom George
>
BIOS seemed to have the standard boot options - floppy, cdrom, hard
drive - plus some others - e.g. usb fdd. In fact, there is a scroll bar
and even more options which included my dvd-rw drive. I changed the
boot sequence to floppy, dvd drive, hard drive and can now boot from
CD's.
Tom
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