I can't believe I am asking this but can somebody remind me which key will bring up the boot menu on these microservers please?

I keep ending up at a grub prompt :-(

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Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

I can't believe I am asking this but can somebody remind me which key will bring up the boot menu on these microservers please?

I usually mash F2, F10, F12 and Delete randomly. Couldn't tell you which
one is detected by any particular machine :-)

Theo

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On 13/08/2024 15:46, Jeff Gaines wrote:

I can't believe I am asking this but can somebody remind me which
key will bring up the boot menu on these microservers please?

F10 according to the helpful manual I downloaded ages ago.

It's definitely worth downloading these manuals and squirrelling them
away before they become unavailable ... or you, er, forget where to
download them!

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On 13/08/2024 15:46, Jeff Gaines wrote:

I can't believe I am asking this but can somebody remind me which key
will bring up the boot menu on these microservers please?

I keep ending up at a grub prompt :-(

IIRC you hit Esc like a demented woodpecker.


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On 13/08/2024 in message <xn0opitaqivlkr500p@news.individual.net> Jeff
Gaines wrote:

I can't believe I am asking this but can somebody remind me which key will >bring up the boot menu on these microservers please?

I keep ending up at a grub prompt :-(

I have succeeded in getting into the BIOS by hitting F10 "like a demented woodpecker"!

No sign of a boot menu from Escape, F2 or F12. Perhaps I need to work my
way through the keyboard...

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Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
This mess is what happens when you elect a Labour government, in the end
they will always run out of other people's money to spend.
(Margaret Thatcher on her election in 1979)

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Jeff Gaines wrote:

No sign of a boot menu

Proliants often use F8, but the same key will do different thinkd
depending on what the most recent prompt was, so don't rush

I think it's Dells with ctrl-S

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On 14/08/2024 in message <li45d2Fep2nU1@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns
wrote:

Jeff Gaines wrote:

No sign of a boot menu

Proliants often use F8, but the same key will do different thinkd
depending on what the most recent prompt was, so don't rush

I think it's Dells with ctrl-S

I will work my way round the keyboard :-)

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On 13 Aug 2024 14:46:37 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

I can't believe I am asking this but can somebody remind me which key will >bring up the boot menu on these microservers please?

I keep ending up at a grub prompt :-(

https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/c02473845

Looks like F10
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On 13/08/2024 in message <xn0opitaqivlkr500p@news.individual.net> Jeff
Gaines wrote:

I can't believe I am asking this but can somebody remind me which key will >bring up the boot menu on these microservers please?

I keep ending up at a grub prompt :-(

Just to wrap this up there are questions about this all over the Internet
but very few answers - and those there are don't work :-(

I sat at the machine for over half an hour and tried Escape, Delete, F2,
F9, F11. F10 does bring up the BIOS setup screen but no boot manager.

The only saving grace is if you plug a bootable DVD or Thumbdrive into the
top of the front USB ports you do get a prompt asking if you want to boot
from it.

If I get stuck at that Grub prompt (it may be a shell prompt with user
Grub) is there anything I can usefully do?

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I was standing in the park wondering why Frisbees got bigger as they get closer.
Then it hit me.

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Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

On 13/08/2024 in message <xn0opitaqivlkr500p@news.individual.net> Jeff
Gaines wrote:

I can't believe I am asking this but can somebody remind me which key will >bring up the boot menu on these microservers please?

I keep ending up at a grub prompt :-(

Just to wrap this up there are questions about this all over the Internet
but very few answers - and those there are don't work :-(

I sat at the machine for over half an hour and tried Escape, Delete, F2,
F9, F11. F10 does bring up the BIOS setup screen but no boot manager.

Are you sure there is a boot manager at all? Traditional practice has been
to go into BIOS and switch the boot order to what you want. Boot managers
are a newfangled innovation.

If I get stuck at that Grub prompt (it may be a shell prompt with user
Grub) is there anything I can usefully do?

It is possible to tell Grub what you want to boot, same commands as in
grub.cfg files. You can also 'chainload' another bootloader (eg Windows).
Be aware that grub refers to discs by its own notation, eg (hd0,0) for first partition on first disc, rather than Linuxisms like sda1.

Theo

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On 17/08/2024 in message <1al*-0dSz@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> Theo wrote:

Just to wrap this up there are questions about this all over the Internet >>but very few answers - and those there are don't work :-(

I sat at the machine for over half an hour and tried Escape, Delete, F2, >>F9, F11. F10 does bring up the BIOS setup screen but no boot manager.

Are you sure there is a boot manager at all? Traditional practice has been
to go into BIOS and switch the boot order to what you want. Boot managers
are a newfangled innovation.

There is according to the Internet! However, if there really was somebody somewhere in all the places I have searched would have posted a reply. I suspect it arrived with later generations of the Microserver.

If I get stuck at that Grub prompt (it may be a shell prompt with user >>Grub) is there anything I can usefully do?

It is possible to tell Grub what you want to boot, same commands as in >grub.cfg files. You can also 'chainload' another bootloader (eg Windows).
Be aware that grub refers to discs by its own notation, eg (hd0,0) for
first
partition on first disc, rather than Linuxisms like sda1.

OK, some learning to do, thank you :-)

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On 17 Aug 2024 at 22:22:47 BST, ""Jeff Gaines"" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
wrote:

There is according to the Internet! However, if there really was somebody somewhere in all the places I have searched would have posted a reply. I suspect it arrived with later generations of the Microserver.

It's F11 on my N36L/N40L/N54L. Maybe you're on an older BIOS? But I
think mine always had it.

Cheers - Jaimie
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producing random digits is, of course, in a state
of sin. -- John von Neumann

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On 18/08/2024 in message <lidtekFtkkcU1@mid.individual.net> Jaimie
Vandenbergh wrote:

On 17 Aug 2024 at 22:22:47 BST, ""Jeff Gaines"" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
wrote:

There is according to the Internet! However, if there really was somebody >>somewhere in all the places I have searched would have posted a reply. I >>suspect it arrived with later generations of the Microserver.

It's F11 on my N36L/N40L/N54L. Maybe you're on an older BIOS? But I
think mine always had it.

Thanks but still no go sadly.

I am on BIOS 041 dated 1/10/2103, the one that gets the NIC working on
Windows.

I even tried powering off, removing the power lead, holding the on/off
switch down for 30 second, putting cable back in, hold down F11 then power
on. I do wonder if the person posting that was taking the Mick though!

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Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his
life.
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On 19/08/2024 10:15, Jeff Gaines wrote:

On 18/08/2024 in message <lidtekFtkkcU1@mid.individual.net> Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:

On 17 Aug 2024 at 22:22:47 BST, ""Jeff Gaines"" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
wrote:

There is according to the Internet! However, if there really was
somebody
somewhere in all the places I have searched would have posted a reply. I >>> suspect it arrived with later generations of the Microserver.

It's F11 on my N36L/N40L/N54L. Maybe you're on an older BIOS? But I
think mine always had it.

Thanks but still no go sadly.

I am on BIOS 041 dated 1/10/2103, the one that gets the NIC working on

That is an impressive time machine!

Windows.

I even tried powering off, removing the power lead, holding the on/off
switch down for 30 second, putting cable back in, hold down F11 then
power on. I do wonder if the person posting that was taking the Mick
though!

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On 19/08/2024 in message <v9vi3o$2sn2d$1@dont-email.me> SH wrote:

I am on BIOS 041 dated 1/10/2103, the one that gets the NIC working on

That is an impressive time machine!

Somebody keeps moving the keys on this xomputer.

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I was standing in the park wondering why Frisbees got bigger as they get closer.
Then it hit me.

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