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Is 3rd Boot Options Possible?
Daydreams.34w...@no-mx.forums.net microsoft public windows vista general If you do an F8 boot in Vista 64 one of the options is supppose to allow you use unsigned drivers. I'm not seeing that, when I hit f8 at start up it brings me to a screen that asks me to choose a boot device? so i choose a device then keep

Partition Reorganization / OK - back to track again ! ;-)
Of particular interest for this survey are the tape boot and network boot capabilities. We are exploring some possibilities of how to provide similar capabilities on this platform and would like your help in providing us a direction to go. 1) Recovery Media Options: Background: Many of you may be familiar with the

Boot Options Problems
Can I remove the option to boot W98 so the machine will boot faster? The file system is ntfs. Most of the advice concerns editing boot.ini but a search of my hardrive fails to find boot.ini. I also only get different options such as "boot in safe mode" if I hit F8 when the boot option menu is shown, no option to

Home Edition: No F8 Option at System Start-Up?
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org linux debian maint boot Cans Pop wrote: 1) debian-installer/probe/usb=false Is this i386 only? Is this for systems that freeze when USB is probed? Does this option replace the 'nousb' option currently described in: http://di.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s01.html#id2453879 or are

Dual-boot options
eg kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro # kopt=ro root=/dev/md0 ## default grub root device ## eg groot=(hd0,0) # groot=(hd0,0) ## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options ## eg alternative=true ## alternative=false # alternative=true

Two boot options
When the computer boots to the boot menu try the different boot options. Can you boot the computer with one of the boot options? Most likely the first option should boot to Windows. John Dave wrote: Yes I do. "John John" wrote: Do you have a floppy diskette drive on your machine? John Dave wrote: Mark - Wanted to

[2.4.22-pre3] minor x86-64 boot-options.txt update
Colin Barnhorst c.barnho...@comcast.net microsoft public windows 64bit general Do not use the escape key technique to install Vista and you will have a boot options menu showing "Older Version of Windows" and "Microsoft Vista". If you run Vista setup from the XP desktop and simply select your desired partition for

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" wrote: When your Computer is starting up, insert your Windows Vista installation DVD, it should prompt you to boot from it by striking a key on your keyboard. If that option is not available, you need to go into your BIOS and set your boot options to boot from your Optical drive.

XP: "Press F8 for advanced options" screen is invisible during boot
... Everything works fine--but ONLY if I have the Vista install CD in my CD/DVD drive. Otherwise I get a "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" error. Any suggestions on how I can resolve this? Thanks! Check your bios settings, you somehow seem to have excluded the harddrive in your boot options.

Rogue Boot Options in NT4
When I restard, I hit escape to enter boot menu, choose the hard disk that Vista is on, and it boots into Vista. Whew, I was nervous there for a few minutes, again, many thanks!! Now, what would be best way, to get it to just give me an option between Vista and XP upon booting? I sure don't want to scredw anything

win98 95 dual boot
Paul Menage men...@google.com linux kernel On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Balbir Singh <bal...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: A boot option for the memory controller was discussed on lkml. It is a good idea to add it, since it saves memory for people who want to turn off the memory controller. By default the option

Vista constantly rebooting after this week's updates ...
Option: failsafe -- boots you into console mode and allows the option of rescuing your system in case of some service/kernel boot up failure that's preventing When I view my boot options I can understand "windows", "linux", and "floppy"; but two other options I don't understand: "linux-nonfb" and "failsafe".

Two boot options, only want one!
It points at a non-existing option. Fix that line and things will be back to normal. If you examine the date stamp of boot.ini you can tell when it was last changed. Klaus jeff wrote in message <8tiltl$42...@iac5.navix.net>... the weirdest thing happened to me. When the server is booting and gets to the boot option

Bug#464918: fails to transition kernel boot options
How do I restore the linux boot selector. I am stuck with the windows boot options; which takes me to the two windows systems. help steve There have been a few threads about this recently, so google this newsgroup for detailed replies (about 2 weeks ago I thin), but essentially, boot from the original SuSE CD and

NT: Secret boot options?!
This option is configured by default on the [VGA] option on the boot menu. /WIN95 This switch is only pertinent on a triple-boot system that has DOS, Win9x and Windows NT installed. Specifying the /WIN95 switch directs NTLDR to boot the Win9x boot sector stored in BOOTSECT.W40. See Microsoft KB Article Q157992 for

Memory Resource Controller Add Boot Option
I am attempting the full restore from a backup on an external hard drive I used F8 to get to this screen: 'Advanced Boot Options Choose Advanced Options for: Microsoft Windows Vista (use the arrow keys to highlight your choice.) Safe Mode (highlighted) Safe Mode with Networking Safe Mode with Command Prompt Enable

Losing the boot options?
Hans Updyke han...@dimensional.com alt os linux mandrake George wrote: When I boot up my computer with Mandrake 9.2, I'm given the following boot options: Linux Linux - nonfb Linux - enterpris failsafe All but the "enterpise" choice (probably) use the same basic kernel, but with different options.

Two boot options
That is one amongst many reasons that experienced users prefer to use bios option than Vista boot manager. As you can see from my pic, BCD store only Having 2 different O/S boot on two different drives with bios boot, eliminates Bootmngr and loosing system restore options without having to hack the registry.

Multiple system disks and SAN
edwin el...@xs4all.nl intel motherboards pentium_mmx Chris M. wrote: I am some problems with my boot options. I installed a adaptec 2940uw scsi card and and barracuda hd. They work fine as is, but as soon as I put an ide hd in the mix, it always tries to boot from it before the scsi hd. I have my boot options

SPARCstation 2 boot options
To select it, you'll need to use the "vga=" syntax for your kernel boot option. For instance, to set the console to 800x600 with 8-bit color depth you would use "vga=0x0303" (available modes listed with the hwinfo --framebuffer command) So your kernel line in grub menu would look something like this (on 1 line)