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Re: Damned BIOS

From Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Damned BIOS
Date 2014-09-14 08:33 +0200
Organization PostgreSQL and SQLite
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On 2014-09-10, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2014-09-10, Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:46:32 +0200, Paul Sture wrote:
>>
>>> The real problem as I recall is that the MicroServer decides to boot
>>> from the newly inserted USB disk when there isn't a boot sector on it.
>>> Startup then hangs.  It makes this system hard to use as headless.
>>
>> I have several microservers, and had that problem once. I set the "USB 
>> Device Boot Priority" to "Low" in the BIOS, and the problem went away.
>
> That's probably the one I found.  I'll check next time I boot it.

And a reboot later, I can confirm that my cure was the same: setting the
"USB Device Boot Priority" to "Low"

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we don't                                           -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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Damned BIOS Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-09-02 15:05 +1000
  Re: Damned BIOS Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-02 08:06 +0000
    Re: Damned BIOS Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-09-02 19:38 +1000
      Re: Damned BIOS Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-02 12:06 +0000
        Re: Damned BIOS Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-09-03 12:15 +1000
      Re: Damned BIOS Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-09-02 15:39 +0100
        Re: Damned BIOS Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-09-03 12:22 +1000
          Re: Damned BIOS Scion <a.b@nospam.invalid> - 2014-09-10 10:16 +0000
            Re: Damned BIOS Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-09-14 15:27 +1000
              Re: Damned BIOS Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-09-14 14:25 +0100
    Re: Damned BIOS RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-02 18:19 +0000
      Re: Damned BIOS polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-09-02 19:52 +0100
        Re: Damned BIOS Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-09-02 19:41 +0000
          Re: Damned BIOS polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-09-02 21:12 +0100
            Re: Damned BIOS Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-09-02 21:00 +0000
              Re: Damned BIOS polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-09-02 22:08 +0100
              Re: Damned BIOS Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-02 21:14 +0000
              Re: Damned BIOS Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-09-02 23:10 -0600
                Re: Damned BIOS Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-09-03 05:58 +0000
              Re: Damned BIOS Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-14 08:26 +0200
      Re: Damned BIOS Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-02 21:09 +0000
  Re: Damned BIOS Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-09-02 14:29 +0100
    Re: Damned BIOS Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-02 16:35 +0200
      Re: Damned BIOS Scion <a.b@nospam.invalid> - 2014-09-10 10:18 +0000
        Re: Damned BIOS Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-10 13:46 +0200
          Re: Damned BIOS Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-09-10 13:00 +0000
            Re: Damned BIOS Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-10 19:28 +0200
              Re: Damned BIOS Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-09-10 19:11 +0000
                Re: Damned BIOS Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-14 08:44 +0200
                Re: Damned BIOS Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-09-14 07:17 +0000
              Re: Damned BIOS Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-14 08:33 +0200
        Re: Damned BIOS Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-09-10 13:53 +0100
          Re: Damned BIOS Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-14 08:30 +0200

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