[highlight] QUOTE=Pellidon Is your bios set up to boot from CD/DVD first? I have one PC that each power up it resets to HDD-CD-floppy in that order despite my telling it to reverse HDD and CD boot order. Didn't matter how many times I saved the change.[/highlight]
I'll let you in on the world's best kept secret. There is a key you can press during POST that causes the BIOS to put up a boot device selection menu. You can select the device and it will load the OS immediately. You don't have to change the BIOS. The BIOS doesn't have to guess what you want it to do. You don't have to guess what the BIOS is guessing you want it to do. You don't have to remove floppies from their drives or CDs from their drives, etc.
To put it simply, it's too quick and easy for the masses, so don't let it out.
There is one trick to it though. You have to figure out which key, and figure out how and when to press it. On my newer Asus mobo, it's the F8 key. On my Intel mobo, it's the F10 key. My older Asus used the ESC key. I don't remember what the old Dell machines at work used. It's so confusing that I put labels on my keyboard.
This is the Asus menu:
This is the Intel menu. Notice it only shows one hard drive, even though I have two. This is the lamest excuse for a motherboard/BIOS I've ever seen.