Prevent access to boot menu

#1 anlaoch

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Posted 12 August 2008 - 01:35 PM

Hi.

I'm running an AMD cpu on an Asrock K7-880 upgrade mobo. I want to prevent users from pressing F11 at start-up thereby being offered a selection of devices from which to boot i.e. they could press F11 and opt to boot from the floppy, CD, or slave hdd (which has Ubuntu on it). I don't want to disable the devices altogether, which I could do but that would prevent the user being able to use them at all.

All help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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#2 AO3

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Posted 12 August 2008 - 01:58 PM

Look in the bios. You should be able to set the bios to boot only to the Pri HDD then put a password on the bios so no one can change it.

#3 anlaoch

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Posted 12 August 2008 - 02:55 PM

Unfortunately, there are only options for setting device priority, but nothing to only permit the primary hdd. Any idea where to go from here?

Thanks again.

#4 ripken204

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Posted 12 August 2008 - 05:08 PM

i am not sure if it is possible.

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