On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 05:32:28PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 03:19:50PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I first thought it was my imagination, but I have had > > two Dell Dimension computers change their boot drive order. I > > don't know when it happens because they change to boot the hard > > drive just after trying the floppy such that the CDROM is last. > > This makes it hard to boot from any CDROM until the CMOS gets > > changed back. > > > > As a computer user who is blind, this is annoying > > because one must look at the screen to set things back as there > > is no network interface or serial port or much of anything else > > up when in BIOS setup mode. > > > > Perhaps you should try editing your /etc/fstab and mounting the devices > by their UUIDs, rather than their /dev/ names. I'd go into more detail, > but I have to head out; a quick Google search for "mounting by UUID" > should suffice. AIUI, the problem is how to boot from CDROM instead of the hard drive. Can grub, booted by the bios, then boot a CDROM, or a floppy?
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