On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Karl Cunningham<ka...@keckec.com> wrote: > Robert Donovan wrote: >> >> On one of my home boxes and the ones at NCAS, there is a BIOS setting >> called Boot USB Device First separate from the boot sequence settings. >> If this is not set, it doesn't matter if USB is in the first boot >> position. It still won't boot. Does your system have something like >> this perhaps? > > And some BIOSes have a menu available with a hot key right after POST to > select the boot device, overriding the BIOS setting.
I usually use this anyway, and don't bother messing with the defaults (which I generally leave at floppy>hdd>cd). -- Brad Beyenhof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://augmentedfourth.com Life would be so much easier if only (3/2)^12=(2/1)^7. -- KPLUG-Newbie@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
