On Wed December 29 2004 9:54 am, rik wrote:
Hi Fred,
Thanks for your answer. I've managed to solve the problem:
- Changed the boot order in my bios to 1. HD 2. Floppy 3. CD-ROM
For some reason my pc does not boot when cd-rom comes first (only when I inserted the Suse CD).
Correct.......if there's not a bootable CD in the drive, then it's bypassed to the next drive. SOME systems will "barf" on this, and you'll have to remove the offending CD (non-bootable) then continue the boot process.
I do have a boot floppy, and that's OK. But then I've to set the floppy as the 1st to boot in the Bios (which is strange ;)
No.......that's "standard."
Anyway, I've installed the bios I found on the Fujitsu-Siemens website. But still the same. It's no longer a 'problem' since I boot my HD first.
Good deal!
But my question remains: how can kde/suse (?) ruin my bios/boot process in a normal session? Or was the reason probably a hardware crash that had nothing to do with my OS?
Correct.....nothing to do with the OS. Linux boots with a BIOS of it's own, once a proper drive has been found. Fred -- "As Internet technology itself vaults into new areas, so too does the Microsoft monopoly and its tried-and-true bag of tricks." -US Senator Orrin Hatch, (R) Utah