john doe <johndoe65...@mail.com> writes:
> On 7/30/2019 7:01 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
> >
> > I have 4 older PC's that generally work well running
> > debian but Right now, 3 of them need varying degrees of attention
> > to their BIOS setups as Dell motherboards and possibly other
> > brands will occasionally modify their boot sequences for some
> > reason and the only way one can boot from a CDROM is to get in to
> > the BIOS setup and yank the boot order back to one where the CD
> > drive is ahead of the hard drive or put an unbootable hard drive
> > in. Six or eight months later, one will suddenly discover that
> > the boot sequence has fallen back to the useless one where the
> > floppy drive is first, followed by the hard drive followed by the
> > CDROM.
> >
>
> Why not "simply" deconnecting the hdd once booted reconnecting it?
> Granted, it's clearly not ideal! :)
I chuckled when I read your message. Not because there
was anything at all wrong with the suggestion but because that
was the first thing I tried years ago when I stumbled across the
problem. Since the boot drive was disconnected, the computer
just gave me that nasty little double high-pitched beep which
says the game is over before it even started.
It seems that there has to be a drive in place that would
boot if only it could.
Again many thanks.
Martin
