How to change boot order in IBM bios

[marcfell27]

Hello

I'm trying to install xp home onto a friends IBM machine, the machine boots to floppy by default, so I went into setup (took me a while to find out it was F1 for that), and found that there isn't any option to change the boot order to CD-ROM in the bios, what's that all about?

Do I need to make bootable floppies, or is there some secret IBM code thing to change the order?


(I didn't get the motherboard or bios info before I left)

Anyway,
Thanks in advance.

 

[Nodsu]

Do you realise that IBM has manufactured probably hundreds of different models of computers over the years? And you provided zero information about the machine in question..

IBM/Lenovo have Flash-based BIOS simulators for some of their models on their website. You can use the flash simulation to look for the right place.

 

[marcfell27]

Wow, no I didn't realise that.

Thanks for your advice.