Alan McConnell wrote: > Assembled Wisdom! > > I am running wheezy, and would like to upgrade to jessie. To > that end I've bought a CD and a USB stick from LinuxCollections. > My problem: when booting I can't get into my bios to change the > boot order. No matter what key I press, the system continues > on with a re-boot of my old wheezy. > > Details: my motherboard is a "Military Class Motherboard", which > I believe is also called MSI. When the image flashed on the screen, > only for a few seconds, I see at the bottom instructions to press > either the F11 key, or the Delete key. But when I press either of > these, nothing happens. So my question is: can I change the boot > order from withing wheezy, after I have booted and wheezy is already > in use? > > [ Yes, I should have saved the material that came with my machine. > But I have recently moved, quite hurriedly, and I fear that the paper > manuals were lost. ] > > Thanks in advance for all help and suggestions!
yes, it is in grub you can change which is booted first. the file: /etc/default/grub (make backup copy if you make changes you are unsure about) songbird
