Hi,
On a Falcon with HDDRIVER 8.1 installed I was under the impression that holding down the letter of the
drive I wished to boot from forced a boot from that drive.
After the memory test has completed I have sub-second with which to selected C instead of D, is this normal
behaviour?
My Falcon now boots from D and I'm unable to set it to C or any other internal drive.
Regards
Dave
Boot from alternate drive
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uweseimet
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Re: Boot from alternate drive
Hi,
yes, there is not much time to select the boot drive. The key must be pressed before the HDDRIVER startup message is displayed. What I usually do is pressing the key to select the boot partition twice: Once for stopping the memory test, and immediately a second time to select the boot partition. This has always worked for me.
The boot partition selection by keyboard is only valid until the next cold start or until the selection is changed by pressing a different key when booting. The setting is not permanent.
If you want to permanently change your boot partition you can do so by configuring HDDRIVER accordingly with HDDRUTIL.
Best regards
Uwe
yes, there is not much time to select the boot drive. The key must be pressed before the HDDRIVER startup message is displayed. What I usually do is pressing the key to select the boot partition twice: Once for stopping the memory test, and immediately a second time to select the boot partition. This has always worked for me.
The boot partition selection by keyboard is only valid until the next cold start or until the selection is changed by pressing a different key when booting. The setting is not permanent.
If you want to permanently change your boot partition you can do so by configuring HDDRIVER accordingly with HDDRUTIL.
Best regards
Uwe