Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS EeePC 1000HA : boot query

2009-10-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 25 October 2009 13:22:21 Daniel da Veiga wrote: > I have a couple of EEEs and my brother have the same model you have. > All three work the same way, you hold ESC while booting (you can just > keep it pressed after you power it on) and a boot menu comes. That's interesting. I didn't try

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS EeePC 1000HA : boot query

2009-10-25 Thread Philip Webb
091025 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 25 October 2009 00:30:48 Philip Webb wrote: >> There's 1 problem : you hold F2 down to get BIOS, >> then use Esc for a boot menu (you have to go in/out of BIOS first). >> However, this doesn't work when I first switch the machine on : >> M$ XP starts regar

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS EeePC 1000HA : boot query

2009-10-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 20:30, Philip Webb wrote: > I've got my new toy to boot from USB with SystemRescue 1.3.1 , > which comes up beautifully with Gentoo using 'Altker32' > (the 'default' kernel boots into some kind of emergency mode); > despite what the intro help says, the desktop manager is X

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS EeePC 1000HA : boot query

2009-10-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 25 October 2009 00:30:48 Philip Webb wrote: > I've got my new toy to boot from USB with SystemRescue 1.3.1 , > which comes up beautifully with Gentoo using 'Altker32' > (the 'default' kernel boots into some kind of emergency mode); > despite what the intro help says, the desktop manager i

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS EeePC 1000HA : boot query

2009-10-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Oct 2009, at 00:30, Philip Webb wrote: ... There's 1 problem : you hold F2 down to get BIOS, then use Esc for a boot menu (you have to go in/out of BIOS first). However, this doesn't work when I first switch the machine on : M$ XP starts regardless & I have to reboot from there to get BI

[gentoo-user] ASUS EeePC 1000HA : boot query

2009-10-24 Thread Philip Webb
I've got my new toy to boot from USB with SystemRescue 1.3.1 , which comes up beautifully with Gentoo using 'Altker32' (the 'default' kernel boots into some kind of emergency mode); despite what the intro help says, the desktop manager is Xfce, which is started via 'wizard' & offers basic useful ap