From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Nov 18 00:49:41 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFAB6C44784 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:49:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com) Received: from know-smtprelay-omc-5.server.virginmedia.net (know-smtprelay-omc-5.server.virginmedia.net [80.0.253.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351E01BCA for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:49:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([81.100.29.190]) by know-smtprelay-5-imp with bizsmtp id 9CoW1u00C466fER01CoWsD; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:48:30 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [81.100.29.190] X-Spam: 0 X-Authority: v=2.1 cv=HZrpNXw8 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=+He7s6SjlwGdCRwhjLOitA==:117 a=+He7s6SjlwGdCRwhjLOitA==:17 a=L9H7d07YOLsA:10 a=9cW_t1CCXrUA:10 a=s5jvgZ67dGcA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=L24OOQBejmoA:10 a=NcCA4xrTFpYHyFTXERcA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 500) id 4A1A387EDF; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:48:30 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:48:30 +0000 From: Ken Moffat To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ok How do I boot this monster? Message-ID: <20161118004830.GA30536@milliways.localdomain> References: <07218d20-34a5-171b-f6a8-de3c271733cc@columbus.rr.com> <575baf45-b23d-163f-79b0-213a6ba51c91@columbus.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:49:41 -0000 On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 05:04:31PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > > If you have any reasonably standard machine from the last decade or so, > there is a keypress on boot to choose a boot device. This might have been > disabled, but then could be re-enabled. For quality home-builder > motherboards like Gigabyte, it's F12. For quality prebuilt systems like > Dell, it's usually F12. > For Asus, F2 seems to be the way to get to the BIOS (or to the UEFI, I suppose), from where you can eventually find a place to choose the boot device. Some of them also have a function key assigned to go to that choice, but I can't remember which key. ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods