I have never run into this as the boot setup by default. Often the CD drive is third, and I change that to second, but I don't know why a manufacturer would ship a computer with the floppy drive not the first boot device, unless a customer asks for that configuration. Glenn On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Kerry Hoath wrote: > > And no garantee floppy always trumps hard drive, some bioses do hard drive > first. > > On 10/04/2012 3:58 AM, Gregory Nowak wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 10:30:30AM -0500, Glenn wrote: >> > Well, I think the floppy is always there in front of the HD, so a >> > bootloader >> > on a floppy should fix that problem. >> >> Assuming the system in question has a floppy drive installed. >> >> Greg >> >> >> - -- >> web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org >> gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc >> skype: gregn1 >> (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) >> >> - -- >> Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAk+DP2gACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyDM7wCgpx9iC0lFtH0S3S5LdULFaJnP >> SR4AoKdRTuVwNyoEPqIekFM0VkuQMLqG >> =TOhq >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup