From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 14:38:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38B8637B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:38:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F9E43E6E for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:38:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g9PLcgU06629; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:38:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200210252138.g9PLcgU06629@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Can't boot from CDROM after install 4.7 To: ntusnet@yahoo.com (David Ouyang) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:38:41 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG (Question FreeBSD.ORG) In-Reply-To: <20021025211250.18378.qmail@web20009.mail.yahoo.com> from "David Ouyang" at Oct 25, 2002 02:12:50 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > How do I set first boot to CDROM instead of da0 > (the bios first boot is CDROM). That is normally done in your BIOS setup. Boot the machine and hit whichever keys it says to get in to setup. You will find somewhere in that stuff an item for boot sequence. You can then set the order. Best is probably: 1) Floppy Disk if you have it 2) CD 3) DVD if you have it 4) Hard Disk It will then boot from the first device that has media in it and skip over ones that have nothing in the device. Each vendor is just a little different about how to get in to the BIOS setup, but it is usually something like hitting an F2 or F10 or a DELETE key. Usually it has a message on the screen that tells but some machines can be configured to not display that message. Also, some machine require removing a jumper/key on the motherboard to enable making changes to the BIOS. So, you will just have to check to see which yours does. But, once you get that, making the change is easy. Just follow the on-screen instructions to set and reorder and quit/save the settings. ////jerry > > Thanks > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message