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General => Common Topic Symposium => Topic started by: Darwin on March 21, 2003 02:57 pm CST

Title: Booting linux
Post by: Darwin on March 21, 2003 02:57 pm CST

I am at my school at the moment, and I brought my linux disk that boots right off of the CD.  Well, I popped in the CD and restarted the computer and pressed F8 to enter the BIOS, but I see no option to select the boot order.

I just wanna run linux on this so I can freak my comp teacher out.

Anyway, this comp runs win2000 professional, and I'm wondering if that would have anything to do with it.

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Post by: Jason_Xero on March 21, 2003 03:27 pm CST

Wow, I'm surprised those idiots at your school didn't password-protect the Bioses.  Tell me who manufactures the Bios and also what brand the computer is and maybe more in-depth things like who makes the motherboard, what kind of cpu, etc. Then I can help.

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Post by: UnderGod on March 21, 2003 09:28 pm CST

I believe you can only get the boot menu with the boot disk in win2k... For that reason.

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Post by: Particle on March 21, 2003 10:26 pm CST

It's almost a definate that it's in your bios somewhere.

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Post by: Jason_Xero on March 22, 2003 12:00 am CST

Nah UG, bios, and bios alone has the ability to determine what the PC will boot from.  Windoze won't have a say when the hard drive isn't even able to be accessed because the Bios would have tried the cd-rom first.

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Post by: Darwin on March 22, 2003 12:30 am CST

Unless it is an xbox.  Then you need a mod chip...

Its the weekend, and Im at home now.  All I remember is that they are Dell Optiplex's or something, the make they used to make before they switched to that black-case look.

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Post by: funger on March 24, 2003 01:29 am CST

the bios select should be f1 - f3 at boot, but it all depends on the pc, and some bios are lock out capable and only accessable through the central or adminstrators pc.

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Post by: Particle on March 24, 2003 09:09 am CST

If it's passworded just clear it.

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Post by: funger on March 26, 2003 12:46 pm CST

just put phat linux on the hd then u can start ir from windows or whatever else your using

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Post by: Darwin on March 26, 2003 07:24 pm CST

*cough* school computer *cough*

Anyway, I dont think the bios is password locked, since I was able to get into it with one of the F1-F12 keys...

The only problem is I couldnt find a way to select it to boot from CD Rom before it boots from HDD.