Backing Up CMOS Settings Under Linux

2009-05-03 Thread Martin McCormick
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

Re: Backing Up CMOS Settings Under Linux

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Pobega
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

Re: Backing Up CMOS Settings Under Linux

2009-05-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
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

Re: Backing Up CMOS Settings Under Linux

2009-05-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 03:19:50PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: ... 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