On Thu 08 Nov 2012 at 08:13:56 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a system that constantly reverts back to the > wrong boot order and I need to monkey-wrench it to boot off > CDROM so as to upgrade it to wheezy. > > As a computer user who happens to be blind, this is a > major pain. Get the monitor. Find somebody to watch it and ask > them to go in to CMOS setup and reorder the boot sequence and > then save. If you only have to do that once per computer, it is > tolerable but eventually, this otherwise functional computer > won't boot off the CD and we have to do it all over again.
Ok, your BIOS is uncooperative. This is almost the same siyuation as having a BIOS which cannot boot a CD/DVD. > I want to declare a truce and put a floppy in that will > call the CD. I think this can be done but all the documentation > I find is either very narrowly targetted or doesn't explain > the why of grub-install well enough to figure out what to do. I'd suggest you don't want to do this, whether it is doable or not. There are two ways I can think of but let's have some more information first please, 1. What is on this CD of yours? If it is a Debian image, please say exactly which one it is. 2. Can the BIOS boot a USB stck? > Where are some linear English sentences that de mystify what we > can get grub-install to do? Involving grub-install isn't necessary, but which bit of grub-install [OPTION] install_device requires de-mystifying? With a floppy I'd expect grub-install /dev/fd0 to do the job. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121108232445.GH12976@desktop
