Re: Help needed with a stubborn Gateway box!

[Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, gary%duzan.org@localhost wrote:

>   You can always start with the NetBSD-{ver}-amd64-install.img.gz or
> NetBSD-{ver}-amd64-live-sd0root.img.gz image, which boot off USB fine.

Hmmm, I don't seem to find that file on nyftp's daily builds...

FWIW, I just tried to boot a cleanly-burned FreeDOS 1.1 install image, 
and it fails to boot on the Gateway box, too.  It seems that when there 
is only one device with a (what the BIOS considers to be) "valid" boot 
block, you cannot even use F12 to request the Boot Device Menu; it just 
boots the only "valid" device.

Also FWIW, this does not seem to be a UEFI machine.  The BIOS seems to 
work just like all the old BIOSs from before, with text windows and 
arrow-key cursor selections - no GUI, no mouse.



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