Rich Shepard wrote:
> I called Dell Tech Support and learned that either F2 or F12 works, but
> not until the logo screen appears. I'm used to holding down the BIOS access
> key while pressing the power switch. This doesn't work that way.
Never heard of doing it that way. Every machine I have
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 10:05 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, r...@dimstar.net wrote:
>
> > F2 should take you to the BIOS, but F12 should ask you what device to boot
> > from.
> > I use F12 as this is a 'just for this boot' type thing.
>
> Russ,
>
>I called Dell Tech Support
I figured out that I needed to make a hidden directory stucture and
point to it with auto.master. I then found out that I needed to make
soft links from where I actually want the drives to mount. Works.
Trouble is, how do I get autounmounting to work? I have a zip 250
atapi, a bernoulli multidis
F2 should take you to the BIOS, but F12 should ask you what device to boot from.
I use F12 as this is a 'just for this boot' type thing.
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From: Rich Shepard
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Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, r...@dimstar.net wrote:
> F2 should take you to the BIOS, but F12 should ask you what device to boot
> from.
> I use F12 as this is a 'just for this boot' type thing.
Russ,
I called Dell Tech Support and learned that either F2 or F12 works, but
not until the logo screen a
I want to replace the Vista junk with Slackware on my new Dell Latitude
e4510 but I cannot access the BIOS to change the boot sequence. A Google
search turns up only ancient (2003-2005) suggestions of pressing Fn-F1 after
the system's booted. That only suspends/hibernates this system.
Pressi
