On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:46:22AM +0000, Ian Fry wrote:
> Compaq use a scheme where the BIOS setup is in a partition on the hard disk
> (it's basically a DOS filesystem with a different partition ID). The BIOS
> prints 'Press F10 to enter setup' if it detects this partition on the boot
> disk during bootstrap.

I don't think it's the BIOS which prints the message, but the boot loader.
The message dissapeared when I installed OS-BS, and then I could enter the
bios setup with F4 instead of F10.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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