something cool I learned about bios

Dennis Kibbe dennisk at linuxquestions.net
Mon Jan 21 07:47:50 MST 2008


On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 06:45 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> if you press f11 & f12 at startup it will let you temporarily choose which 
> device you want to startup with.
> 
> some might already know this but I didn't and maybe some others don't know as 
> well..... just spreading the wealth!

The three whays I know of bringing up a boot menu are:

F12 (Dell)
F2 (Compaq)
ESC (Compaq, I think)

If you watch the boot process there may be a message telling you the
correct key to press to get to the menu.

Dennisk
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