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Old 03-25-2009, 08:05 PM
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ok so im helping my friend out dual booting his computer. i set the BIOS setting to boot from disk so it comes up with a message that says:

Booting from CD....
press "esc" to open menu

so i press escape....but nothing happens it just boots into ubuntu. i know the keyboard works and ive tried it about 20 times....whats wrong?



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By default you must hit the esc key within 3 seconds!



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Old 03-26-2009, 06:40 PM
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By default you must hit the esc key within 3 seconds!
i have but i figured out if i take the disk out it does the same thing...so it wont boot from the disk for some reason



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