ASUS R500A boot problems

[Neville]

Hello all
I want to install Mint 14 Cinnamon 64 bit on the above Laptop. To cut a long story short I discovered that the boot order choice in the bios is not what I expected.
You choose between booting from the HDD OR from the DVD drive. Weird.
Thinking about it, it would appear that I have to change the bios to DVD boot, install Mint, then change the boot back to HDD so that Win 7 Pro will fire up if GRUB has told it to.
I think Grub comes after the bios.
Is my thinking correct or what??

Cheers
Nev
EDIT The motherboard has UEFI. It was on but I turned it off. Win 7 still boots OK.

[Neville]

I'm sorry to have to bump this post but is there anyone out there who can help me.

Cheers
Nev

[usbtux]

Usually its a priority, on older machines anyway.

So that setting DVD to first, HDD second, floppy third.

If yo had a DVD in the drive the pc would try to boot from that first if it couldn't ( ot a bootable dvd) it would automatically boot to the hard drive.

You may need to disable fast boot.

Your system may be different.

[Neville]

Thanks USBTUX
Changing the boot drive to the optical drive, installing the OS, then changing the boot drive back to the HDD worked.
It is unusual that you have no order, just one or the other.
Anyway it worked.

Cheers
Nev