How Select HDD at boot?

[jw]

I have a MACHSPEED K8M800-8237 with AMD Athlon 64, 2.2 GHz CPU.
It has Phoenix Award BIOS V6, I think.
It has two bootable HDDs. I want to boot to each separately.
I have done this on another machine by using F8 during boot, and then
selecting the HDD from which I want to boot. It works fine.
Now I want to do same on this MACHSPEED machine. But I find no
function key that will allow me a HDD choice.
Do some BIOSs not allow what I want to do? Including this Phoenix?
or maybe there is another key that will facilitate?

Thanks

Duke

 

[Pen]

I have a MACHSPEED K8M800-8237 with AMD Athlon 64, 2.2 GHz CPU.
It has Phoenix Award BIOS V6, I think.
It has two bootable HDDs. I want to boot to each separately.
I have done this on another machine by using F8 during boot, and then
selecting the HDD from which I want to boot. It works fine.
Now I want to do same on this MACHSPEED machine. But I find no
function key that will allow me a HDD choice.
Do some BIOSs not allow what I want to do? Including this Phoenix?
or maybe there is another key that will facilitate?

Thanks

Duke

If it's available it was a custom BIOS. No one offers it as standard.
There are some programs to do that. Google is your friend.

 

[peter]

If your specific BIOS does not have that option...
you have 2 choices ... a Bootloader on the HD that is set to 1st boot
device
or. enter the BIOS each and every time to change
the boot order.

My Gigabyte mobo Bios has that option and like the others it flashes at
bottom of screen
during the boot process.

peter

 

[Paul]

I have a MACHSPEED K8M800-8237 with AMD Athlon 64, 2.2 GHz CPU.
It has Phoenix Award BIOS V6, I think.
It has two bootable HDDs. I want to boot to each separately.
I have done this on another machine by using F8 during boot, and then
selecting the HDD from which I want to boot. It works fine.
Now I want to do same on this MACHSPEED machine. But I find no
function key that will allow me a HDD choice.
Do some BIOSs not allow what I want to do? Including this Phoenix?
or maybe there is another key that will facilitate?

Thanks

Duke

On my computer (different motherboard), the options are listed at the bottom of
the initial BIOS screen. Mine uses F10 for popup boot and F2 to enter the BIOS.
Have a look at your BIOS screen. (And if your BIOS uses "full screen logo",
disable that so you can see the text screen at startup which in underneath.)

Paul

 

[jw]

On my computer (different motherboard), the options are listed at the bottom of
the initial BIOS screen. Mine uses F10 for popup boot and F2 to enter the BIOS.
Have a look at your BIOS screen. (And if your BIOS uses "full screen logo",
disable that so you can see the text screen at startup which in underneath.)

Paul

Thanks all.

It really looks like this BIOS does not allow control of 'power up
boot' via keyboard key like other BIOSs I have used. I scanned the
BIOS windows carefully, and I do not see any.

I will either enter the BIOS each time to change the 'boot order' or
I will create a special boot.ini to deal with it.

Have a great day.

Remember Veterans Day.

Duke