crazyishone Member Posts: 1685 From: Registered: 08-25-2004 |
so, i was running knoppix from a cd a while ago, and set up my bios to boot from cd. Well, ive decided that i will just boot Windows from the harddrive so my family doesnt havnt to do anything differently, and that i would interupt the sequence and boot knoppix from the cd. So , yah, im trying to be the nice guy here. :P heres the problem::: Now, when i start up my computer, it says that there is nothing to boot from. I have to press f12 and manually choose where to boot from, then it works. Well, obviously this is inconvenien for everyone else, and I cant seem to fix it. No matter how i set up the boot sequence, it never works. I always have to do it manually. I have a dell Inspiron 1100, BIOS Revision A32 please, i hope somebody here can help me out. ------------------ |
Jachin Member Posts: 113 From: Independence, OR, USA Registered: 01-03-2003 |
Hi, Your BIOS has more settings than the default boot device. Hope this helps. |
crazyishone Member Posts: 1685 From: Registered: 08-25-2004 |
well, jachinm its a dell laptop. machines manufactured by big companies have very restricted and limited BIOS. I cant even try your method. :-P i tried rearranging it...i tried "reinstalling" BIOS in an attempt to get factory settings...i have tried alot. I always get the same message ::: then i have to restart, go to the on-time-boot menu, and boot from there. every time. >_< ------------------ |
Jari Member Posts: 1471 From: Helsinki, Finland Registered: 03-11-2005 |
Well i'm no expert in this but if you happen to have grub as bootloader and have more than one HD then maybe you need to change the settings in grub's config file to boot the right HD. Maybe this will help: (if you even have grub) ------------------ string LordAndSaviour() { return "Jesus Christ"; } // [VoHW][Blog] |
Jachin Member Posts: 113 From: Independence, OR, USA Registered: 01-03-2003 |
Hi, If I remember the Dell laptop BIOS has many screens if you press alt-P. I've never had any problems booting to the Auditor Security Collection live knoppix CD and back to Windows. I suppose it may have written stuff to your hdd boot sector. |
crazyishone Member Posts: 1685 From: Registered: 08-25-2004 |
haha, I know about switching pages and all that. Lol, thats why i came here in desperation. I have tried basically everything. Everything still boots , but I have to go into the one-time-boot menu to tell it to. .... Well, thanks for your help tho. ------------------ |