Re: Default selection for boot menu?

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 01:16:55PM +0800, W B Hacker wrote:
> : Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> : >Addendum: pressing the F1 key does nothing.  Keyboard just beeps at me 
> : >when I
> : >press a key.
> : >
> : >Jonathon McKitrick
> : >--
> : >My other computer is your Windows box.
> : 
> : Is there an MBR with a 'broken' boot manager or bootable image on the 
> : device the BIOS is pointing to?
> : 
> : If there is none at all, there will usually be a BIOS error message.
> : 
> : It sounds as if, instead, the BIOS believes it has made a sucessful 
> : hand-off.
>
> I used to just use 'dangerously dedicated' mode to blow everything away and
> take over the entire HD.  No boot mgr needed.  I thought the DFly install
> would do something similar, but I can't tell how to.  Or, if not, how to get
> things working the way they should with a boot mgr.
>
> I tried:
> fdisk -I
> boot0cfg 
>
> Not sure what's next.

Make sure you have packed mode enabled:

boot0cfg -B -o packet /dev/...

Sascha

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