Hm. The BIOS in most motherboards I have used (Dell, Intel, Nvida, Via) will allow you to SPECIFY the order in which boot devices will be attempted. In my daily non-EMC context, I usually set this to Floppy first, CD second, HDD third. When setting up EMC this allows me to boot the LiveCD to do what's needed, regardless of what's on the HDD.
(FWIW [OT] I use DriveClone on a floppy to make backups of various HDs when needed. Setting "floppy first" in the BIOS means all I have to do is push in the DriveClone floppy into the drive and restart the machine. No additional BIOS tweaks needed.) Hope this helps, - Marty On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Kirk Wallace <[email protected]>wrote: > >From my experience, I have had trouble with booting new Linux > installations if there is still a valid DOS or windows MBR on the hard > drive.<snip> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
