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brandon Joined: Jan 11, 2009 Posts: 40 Other Topics	Posted Jan 12, 2009 at 1:25:37 AM Subject: changing BIOS setting I just recently got the Puppy Linux installed on to my jumpdrive and i know to start it up, you have to change your BIOS. After I first installed it, I had to use the live-cd to get it going, which the site said i would have to do. But after I did that, it said to change my BIOS first boot setting to USB drive which I tried. I could not find a place where it said USB anything. All of the setting were, floppy diskette, cd, hardrive, and network. I'm running a Compaq Presario that came with a Windows XP and it is updated to SP3. People say that if you play Microsoft programs backwards, you hear satanic things, but thats nothing. If you run them forwards, then they install Windows!
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Joined Jul 26, 2008 Posts: 703 Location: Other Topics	Posted: Jan 12, 2009 3:34:22 AM Subject: changing BIOS setting Make a Wakepup floppy since bios doesn't support boot from usb.
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proopnarine Joined Apr 03, 2008 Posts: 590 Location:San Francisco Other Topics	Posted: Jan 12, 2009 4:12:13 AM Subject: changing BIOS setting The BIOS could support booting from a USB; one of my little machines does that. You have to get either get into the BIOS setup before Linux begins to boot though to set the boot order, or issue a command to bring up a BIOS boot menu. Pressing ESC will work for some BIOSes. Take the red pill Climate Change Blog Food Weblog
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Reed Joined Feb 07, 2008 Posts: 758 Other Topics	Posted: Jan 12, 2009 1:06:24 PM Subject: changing BIOS setting [quote]I could not find a place where it said USB anything. All of the setting were, floppy diskette, cd, hardrive, and network.[/quote] Definitely sounds like your BIOS doesn't support booting from a USB device. You can use the wakepup floppy as suggested: http://puppylinux.org/wiki/applications/dot-pets/wakepup, assuming you have a floppy drive.
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brandon Joined Jan 11, 2009 Posts: 40 Other Topics	Posted: Jan 12, 2009 10:23:41 PM Subject: changing BIOS setting My machine doesn't have a floppy drive. I'm just having to leave the live CD i created in the CD-ROM everytime i turn the machine on if i want to go to Puppy or it will just run Windows. Is that normal? And by the way, my Windows OS seems to be running a little slower than usual. Everything is till running properly it is just slower. Will a defragment on the Windows OS solve this problem? People say that if you play Microsoft programs backwards, you hear satanic things, but thats nothing. If you run them forwards, then they install Windows!
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Joined Jul 26, 2008 Posts: 703 Location: Other Topics	Posted: Jan 13, 2009 3:33:24 AM Subject: changing BIOS setting [quote]Will a defragment on the Windows OS solve this problem[/quote] Probably. Can't hurt. Disk cleanup wouldn't hurt either. Google CCleaner and download into Windows and install and use it to to unclutter Windows if you wish.
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