There is a key to press at boot time, different from the key to load the bios setup routine, that takes you directly to the motherboard's boot manager and nothing else. The screen is simple: use up/down-arrow to select the device to boot from and press enter. Doesn't change the data stored in CMOS RAM at all. Performs the same function as a software boot manager.
Fred Holmes At 07:36 PM 3/6/2008, John covici wrote: >This would not work for me as I wold then have to go into the BIOS and >change things around and I am not even sure I could do this. > >on Thursday 03/06/2008 Fred Holmes([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > With today's cheap hard drives, etc., why not make it easy and put the > > Windows stuff on a separate hard drive, and use the motherboard's boot > > manager to select which device to boot from? > > > > At 05:34 PM 3/6/2008, John covici wrote: > > >Hi all. I am trying to install Windows XP on a system which has > > >partition 1 as an ntfs empty partition, and other partitions of the > > >disk have Linux on them. When I try to do this, after hitting enter > > >to select the partition, I get a message saying that the disk has no > > >XP compatible partition. I even tried deleteing and creating a > > >partition from the windows setup screen and itdid not do any good > > >along with messing up the partition table. Anyone have a clue? > > > > > >Thanks. > > > > > > John Covici > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ************************************************************************* > > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > > ************************************************************************* > >-- >Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: >How do >you spend it? > > John Covici > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
