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Principle

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Process

Bios setup

To edit your bios setting you need to press a specific key at the start up. This key is usually indicated at the bottom of the first screen.

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You then need to naviguate in your bios menu until you find the boot order management

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When you arrive in the boot order management, you need to modify the hard drives boot sequences as well as the device boot sequence (CDROM, Network, ...)

This could appear in a variety of format depending on your bios manufacturer.

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Then exit the bios while saving changes (usually by pressing F10 key)

The computer will reboot.

Boot the Operating System

After the bios sequence, the boot process will give hand to operating system boot loader syslinux. If you boot from USB you have nothing to do, if you boot from CD you might choose the language settings for your operating system.

Documentation

Web EN: http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p1.htm

Wikipedia EN : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS

Web FR: http://www.vulgarisation-informatique.com/bios.php

Wikipedia FR: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Input_Output_System

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