On 06/10/2014 01:10 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, Dale Snell wrote: > >> Try the DELETE key. That works for some motherboards. > Dale, > > Hadn't thought of that, only Esc and the 12 function keys. Turns out that > Bill's suggestion of F2 at the logo screen works. > > The system is set to boot first from the optical drive, then the hard > drive. But it won't, even though the optical drive holds the > Slackware-14.1/x86_64 distribution disk. If I correctly understand how it > _should_ work, it would boot from that disk if there was no hard drive > installed or the kernal module management tool was missing (the case here). That hasn't been my experience. If the boot order is set to optical drive before magnetic hard disk, if there is anything bootable in the optical drive, it should boot that - regardless of whether or not the hard drive is bootable.
You may also have some problem with your media or the optical drive. Wayne > > Thanks, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
