-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Royce Souther wrote: > I am using vmplayer to test system installs and I have to switch between CD > and HDD booting quite often. The problem is the POST time is so fast that it > is a real pain trying to get the boot menu. It is less then 1 second POST > time that I see a flash of the message telling me to press ESC to enter > setup and by the time I see it, it is already to late. I have been searching > for days and cannot find any information about this. I looked in the BIOS > for a quick boot option to dissable or a RAM test feature to slow the POST > down but there is nothing.
I have it set to boot from the CD first, then the hard drive. In the GUI I can enable or disable the CD/DVD drive. So, if the cd/dvd drive is not connected (in vmware parlance) then it boots from the hard drive. No messing about with their BIOS. > > If anyone knows of a setting I can put in my VMX to slow down the POST that > would be great. If not then a setting to change the BOOT sequence would work > but I am hoping to find a way that does not require me to edit the VMX ever > time I reboot. > I have no knowledge of such a setting. Cheers, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIrfHwwRXgH3rKGfMRAm9oAJ0fm9vyx7sSkh16b1Yle0PcH8wMCgCfYbZZ Yvb4JX/OBCgn2aXjzwC7EkU= =jBum -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
