After many reboots and LOTS of searching figured out how to get in by clearing bios.
Do a hard restart – power off, remove batter then re-insert battery and plug power cable back in
Upon pressing the power up button Hold Fn+F11 to ‘reset’ the bios.
This will allow you to then enter the bios and make adjustments as necessary.
I just needed to be able to boot from the ‘multi-drive’ to get into my diag cd tools.
Few things are more aggravating than not being able to change boot orders or hdd configs.
Dell’s are notorious for this too. Their usual method to enter the bios is F2. But doesn’t always work.
And the response I often get from the Dell support guys when I have problems getting into their bios is, “well I guess you just can’t configure that on the model system”
What kinda crap is that?
Well anyways hope some of this helps.