[Leaplist] Seeing the key to bring up BIOS

[William H. Ferguson]

What I should have said is:

Rarely I have needed to access the BIOS at boot up.

The only Operating Systems I  have experience with have been 
Fedora core  2, 5, 7, 8 and 9.  I ran Simply Mepis intermittently,
rarely,
for about three years.

On more than one occasion I  changed the Boot Sequence
in the BIOS.  Sometimes I would have to make the BIOS boot sequence
change when I'd try to boot a Live CD (Knoppix, Puppy, or Simply Mepis)

Sometimes when I changed Op. Systems, removing, say,
Fedora core 5 and installing Fedora core 7, somehow
my computer wouldn't recognize the new Install Disk and I would
finally tumble to the fact that the Bios was configured such that
the CD drive or the DVD drive was not included in, or not at the top of,
the Boot Sequence order.

Bryan wrote:
It either affects all or none, and it's not an OS issue at all.  
This is a 100% PC issue that affects all OSes, including Windows.

Agree.

My purpose in writing was to learn whether there was some esoteric
command available which would freeze the BIOS access key at boot up.

William

On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 06:54 -0700, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 8/29/08, William H. Ferguson <williamhf at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> > It is always a problem for me with some Op. Systems,
> > when a given system is booting, to have sufficient
> > time for me to see/catch the Key/Keys which must be
> > hit in order to bring the BIOS to the Screen.
> 
> Huh?  I don't understand this statement "some Op. Systems".
> 

> 
> 


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