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

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 purs...@ca.inter.net 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

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 regardless I

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

[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