> > definately shadows something (actually two things, I think). What > > impact does this "shadow" stuff have? > > > It should make your machine faster, I've always put them on and never > noticed any problems. However it makes the machine run faster by > using a small amount of you memory, if you have 8Mb or more it > shouldn't really be noticed. If you have 16Mb then definitly leave > this on. This is my humble (and unprofessional) opinion :)
Hmm, I thought I heard something about linux not using these optimizations. (Maybe does its own?) I have plenty of ram, so it isn't a problem. > really does sound like you have a phoenix bios. There is an option, > its called Boot Sequence. Although you can't disable booting from > disk you can give it a lower priority and make it occur after its > searched the harddisk. Beware though, I would use the sequence Disk > -> CDROM -> Harddisk -> Whatever remains. This is because if you run > into problems you can either boot off a disk or cdrom without firstly > going through your bios settings and change them so they will boot off > the disk or cdrom. I believe I do. I did set the sequence to HDD -> CDROM -> Disk, but it is still possible to get to a "menu" by pressing escape at boot time. I don't mind entering bios setup to change the option. I don't have problems that often. > Besides you shouldn't need to reboot your machine much as you are running > linux :) I'm not the only one using the machine, so I'd like to secure it. (Either because I'm paranoid, or because I'd like to brag about my machine being secure... <g>) Hugo van der Merwe
