On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:35:18 -0700 Paul Mullen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:18:58AM -0700, Dale Snell wrote: > > My desktop system doesn't like booting to random USB devices. I > > have to reset the BIOS for every drive (but only one at a time!), > > and it loses that setting once the drive's been removed. > > You can don't have to enter the Setup screen and alter the boot device > priorities each time you plug in a new device if your BIOS supports > the BIOS Boot Specification (which it should, unless the system is > quite old). When you first power-on your system, you should see > something similar to "Press F8 for BBS Popup". (It may be Escape or > F5 or some other key, depending on how the vendor configured the > BIOS.) > > https://imageshack.us/a/img60/6793/bbsjpgne7.jpg Nope, I don't get the BBS popup notification at all. The Press DEL to Setup shows up, of course, but not the other. Obviously the desktop's motherboard is a bit on the elderly side. :-) It's an Asus M2N-MX. > The BBS "popup" menu presents a list of all bootable devices currently > available. > > https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8049/8350750816_f589819597_b.jpg This doesn't show on my desktop machine, either. I do get it on my laptop, though (a Dell Inspiron 9300). --Dale -- "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." -- Jack Valenti, MPAA president, testimony to the House of Representatives, 1982. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
