Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text
On 7/30/2019 7:01 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
>
> I have 4 older PC's that generally work well running
> debian but Right now, 3 of them need varying degrees of attention
> to their BIOS setups as Dell motherboards and possibly other
> brands will occasionally modify their boot sequences for some
> reason and the only way one can boot from a CDROM is to get in to
> the BIOS setup and yank the boot order back to one where the CD
> drive is ahead of the hard drive or put an unbootable hard drive
> in. Six or eight months later, one will suddenly discover that
> the boot sequence has fallen back to the useless one where the
> floppy drive is first, followed by the hard drive followed by the
> CDROM.
>
Why not "simply" deconnecting the hdd once booted reconnecting it?
Granted, it's clearly not ideal! :)
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John Doe
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