Using The Selectable Drive-Startup Sequence; Changing The Startup Sequence - IBM ThinkPad 755CX Manual

Using the Selectable Drive-Startup Sequence

Warning:
If you change your startup
sequence, you must be extremely
careful when you do write
operations (such as copying,
saving, or formatting). Your data
or programs can be overwritten if
you select the wrong drive.

Changing the Startup Sequence

To start Easy-Setup:
Page 42.
Note:
You cannot set a hard disk drive
before the PC Card in the startup
sequence.
Selectable drive startup ( selectable boot ) allows you to control the
startup sequence of the drives in your computer. The order in
which the computer searches the drives for your operating system is
the drive-startup sequence . If you are working with multiple
operating systems, you might want to change the drive-startup
sequence to load the operating system from the hard disk or the PC
Card without checking the diskette drive, or to do a remote program
load (RPL).
To change the startup sequence, do the following:
1
Start Easy-Setup and select the Start up icon.
2
Move the cursor to the Reset icon; then press the
Spacebar.
The sequence is reset, and all available device icons appear
at the bottom of the screen. For the meaning of icons, see
page 45.
3
Move the cursor to the icon of the first device for the
startup sequence; then press the Spacebar.
Repeat this step to set the other devices for the startup
sequence. You can set up to four devices.
4
Click on OK or press Enter to save the change.
Using Easy-Setup
Chapter 3. Operating Your Computer
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