Hi All, I have been lent a Dell Inspiron 2100 to play with but it won't boot.
It has a 700 MHz Pentium III CPU, 128 MB RAM, a 20 GB IDE hard drive and an external IDE CDROM. The computer originally had (has?) Windows ME installed. On power up it runs through a self test and then stops with a blank screen with just a single hyphen or underscore showing as though there is no operating system installed. The boot order according to the BIOS setup program is 1 Removable devices (there are none) 2 Hard Drive 3 CDROM 4 Network The BIOS does not seem to allow changing the boot order. There is a message which reads; All items on this menu cannot be modified in user mode. If any item require changes, please consult your system Supervisor. Are there any sluggers with experience of these beasties who can tell me the magic needed to change the boot order? I am hoping that if I can put the CDROM before the HDD I may be able to boot from something like the System Rescue CD or similar. TIA Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
