[Sunhelp] re: Solaris x86 booting

[S Condit]

If changing the boot order doesn't work (although it should) you can disable
the floppy completely in the BIOS. Set the type of floppy 'a' to none, and
it shouldn't see it. You could also try getting an upgrade for the BIOS on
your machine to try and get the boot order to work properly.

May be easier to eject the disk rather than change the BIOS settings just to
change boot order :-)

Stephen.

|Hi all
|
|I have had a query regarding booting Solaris on Intel machines from
|floppy.  Is there anyway to disable this.  Apparently the problem is
|that if there is bootable media in the floppy drive, then even when boot
|priorities in the CMOS settings are changed to disregard the floppy
|completely, the machine will still continue booting from floppy.  The
|core Solaris will boot in from disk, and then if it sees bootable media
|in floppy, it will continue booting from that.

|Any suggestions?

|Cheers,

|Iano