On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 13:22 -0500, Terry Eck wrote:
Yesterday I wanted to boot from a CD so I checked to "restart" option. The system rebooted and at the correct point I got into the BIOS to make sure the CDROM would be the boot device. Then when it got to the point of rebooting the computer ended up in SuSE 10. I then told SuSE to "turn off the computer", which it did. After powering on the computer if booted off the CDROM. My question:
Does SuSE somehow force the computer to bypass the boot sequence set in the BIOS when it is told to "restart"? If so, anyone know how this is done?
Thanks for any insite
This happens with disturbing frequency on my machine, the BIOS often doesn't detect a CD or DVD in the player and jumps to the harddisk directly. It's either a BIOS bug or a problem with my DVD player, I haven't decided which yet It is theoretically possible to change BIOS settings from inside an operating system, for example my thinkpad has a program (for windows) which changes the password/firgerprint settings. This could be made to change any BIOS setting, including the boot order. But as far as I'm aware, there is no such functionality in linux at this time