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! :) -- John Doe
