Matt Graham wrote:
> From: Dennis Kibbe <dennisk@linuxquestions.net>
>> 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.
>> 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.
>
> The thing that should always work is to hold down any key while the machine
> is POSTing. Then is should display "Keyboard stuck key failure, press
> $FOO to enter Setup, $BAR to continue." (This assumes the machine has a
> keyboard and a monitor attached, of course.)
This only works if you have your BIOS set to stop on keyboard errors.
That's always the first thing I turn off. I can't tell you how many
times I've gotten this error:
"Keyboard not found. Press any key to continue."
Better to just turn off all keyboard errors than to deal with that ;-)
Kurt
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