Re: blue screen reboot

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just to update, i managed to run the ubuntu live cd and retrieve the pics
from the laptop and reset to factory settings so alls well , laptop up and
running and nothing important lost, thanks for the help

"rubyg" wrote:



"Paul" wrote:

rubyg wrote:
I have the cd all ready, but i have one problem, went into BIOS to change
boot sequence to boot from cd, options are :- IDE 0: toshiba MK6034GAX
IDE 1:HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T10N
USB FDD
network Bo Broadcom MBA
USB HDD
USB KEY
USB CDROM
not being used to laptops, is it the usb cdrom i would choose? i thought a
usb anything was something that got plugged in externally, this cdrom is in
the laptop not plugged in seperatley, if you could poinnt me in right
direction as to what one would boot from the cd drive that would be great
thanks, sorry if i sound daft ,but i have not come across a USB CDROM in the
boot list before

The HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T10N entry looks like your internal drive.

There are two ways to set up boot order. If you enter the BIOS setup screens
proper, you can set "CDROM-Floppy-Hard Drive" at the first level of
boot order determination. The second level, would be to edit a list
of Hard Drives, placing the desired hard drive at the top of the
list. That is a form of "permanent" boot order setup.

So based on the "CDROM-Floppy-Hard Drive" boot order, the built-in
GSA-T10N optical drive should have been used first, if media
was present in the tray, and got detected.

Computers also support a function key option at computer startup.
Some computers use F8 - mine uses F11. That presents a list in a
small menu that shows up on the screen. You can navigate down
to the detected device you want to boot from. Using a menu like
that, for example, you could plug in an external USB CDROM and
it would show up in the list. The function key option is
temporary - and on the next reboot, if you don't use
that function key F8 again, the computer will revert to whatever
is specified in the "permanent" boot order "CDROM-Floppy-Hard Drive"
thing.

*******

When the BIOS first runs, you see something like this. The
reference here, to "BBS Popup" and F8, is the temporary boot
menu option. So on this computer, you'd press F8 for the
temporary boot menu.

http://docs.sun.com/source/820-6773/images/7-1-F8-Prompt.gif

When you press F8 early on while the BIOS is starting up, this
is an example of the temporary boot menu, good for this boot.

http://docs.sun.com/source/820-6773/images/7-2-Boot-Device-Menu.gif

*******

This is an example of the "permanent" boot order, suitable for
non-interactive startup of the computer. You get here, by pressing
<Del> or <F2> or whatever key the computer uses to enter the BIOS
setup screens. In this case, the user has selected checking for
a floppy first, then checks to see if a CDROM is in the internal
drive, and so on.

http://icrontic.com/draco/images/articles/build_pc_from_parts_software/bios03.jpg

HTH,
Paul

Thanks i have changed it to that , it is booting from cd now
.

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