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From: "Oddball"
Mark Misulich schreef:
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 18:21 +0100, Oddball wrote:
Sometimes, on (older) laptops, one has to press a key during bios-time to trigger cd-boot, did you try that?
Hi, what key might that magic key be? I am having the same or similar problem on my laptop, and started a thread the day before yesterday about it.
On the laptop that I am trying to install 11.1, I have eight different linux OS's installed. I think that the problem occurred after I installed the latest linuxPCos on one of the partitions. I went on a business trip for two weeks between the time that I did that and then tried to install 11.1, so I think that is what I did. When I then tried to install opensuse 11.1 or any other distro, including using gparted to try to reformat the drive, the computer won't boot from the dvd drive. I have even tried to change hard drives and it still won't do it.
Mark Misulich
mostly the 'c' is used, and if pressed more than once, mostly an
Really? I've seen Enter (at the right time), F1, F2, F4, F10, F11, F12, Del, nothing (no such boot time key other than the one to get into the main bios setup, which of course can be used to change the boot device too), and perhaps a few oddball others like s or ctrl-s or printscreen or scrollock but I don't think I've ever seen c actually. Certainly not "mostly" even if it was on some. I think the correct answer is just to say that the hint is just a hint, a pointer, and that you are meant to go look up the details of your particular model of your own pc. Or just watch your bios/boot messages closer. We can't know. The value in the answer is simply that maybe they hadn't thought of the fact that a special keypress was needed, or that it could be tried as a work-around even if it was never required before as the OP recently claimed. -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org