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Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

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On 7/30/2019 7:01 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
>
> 	I have 4 older PC's that generally work well running
> debian but Right now, 3 of them need varying degrees of attention
> to their BIOS setups as Dell motherboards and possibly other
> brands will occasionally modify their boot sequences for some
> reason and the only way one can boot from a CDROM is to get in to
> the BIOS setup and yank the boot order back to one where the CD
> drive is ahead of the hard drive or put an unbootable hard drive
> in.  Six or eight months later, one will suddenly discover that
> the boot sequence has fallen back to  the useless one where the
> floppy drive is first, followed by the hard drive followed by the
> CDROM.
>

Why not "simply" deconnecting the hdd  once booted reconnecting it?
Granted, it's clearly not ideal! :)

--
John Doe

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Easiest way to do VGA to Text "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-07-30 19:10 +0200
  Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-07-30 20:10 +0200
  Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-07-30 20:20 +0200
    Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-07-30 20:50 +0200
  Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-07-30 21:20 +0200
    Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-07-31 20:00 +0200
      Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-07-31 20:30 +0200
        Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2019-07-31 21:40 +0200
          Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-07-31 23:00 +0200
        Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-07-31 22:50 +0200
          Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-07-31 23:10 +0200
  Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-07-30 21:30 +0200
    Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-08-01 19:00 +0200
  Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-07-30 23:20 +0200
    Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-08-01 19:40 +0200
  Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-08-01 19:50 +0200
    Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-08-01 20:20 +0200
      Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-08-01 21:40 +0200
      Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-08-02 14:50 +0200
    Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-08-02 14:00 +0200

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