something cool I learned about bios

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 07:47 -0700, Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> 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.
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Apple has no such bios but if you hold <Control><Option><O><F> you can
invoke/boot many various things or simply hold down <Option> and see
boot options but it takes so long for Apple to enumerate boot options
from the <Option> choice, it's best to pack a lunch.

Craig