On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 11:06, bascule wrote: > in 'normal' operation does the machine not skip booting from a cd if it > doesn't find one and then go to the next one one in your bios specified list?
It doesn't appear to do that on this machine. > how do you dual boot? with lilo? Yes, lilo. i don't have a vaio so i'm unfamiliar with > the 'sony splash' screen, assuming this is nothing to do with the sony > installed xp but is os independent Yes, OS independent. then what you describe is a machine that > retains cmos settings only if the machine is switched off between boots? but > not if the os (both xp and linux?) does a reboot? Not so, it only happens when rebooting from Mandrake, not from WinXP. > if you are certain that rebooting alters cmos settings and that otherwise > they are retained with the machine switched off then i suggest you get the > machine serviced or look into bios upgrades 'cos i can't see that lm will be > messing with that, I'm not 100% sure that the cmos settings change, it only seems that way. > > on a desktop my first thought would be the cmos battery but i make no comment > about what may under the skin of a vaio or what parts may be servicable by > the user, for all i know notebooks don't have a cmos battery, using instead > the main one? There is a cmos battery and it's OK. > > perhaps there is something going on with your boot manager setup though, lilo > config maybe? what happens if you reboot from xp? to get my xp to dual boot > properly i had to tell lilo to set certain properties of partitions upon > booting (change active partition etc.) but i suspect my arrangement on my > desktop is more complex than what you describe, As I said above, it reboots just fine from XP. It's just a minor annoyance, I don't have to reboot that often. Thanks for your interest. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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