Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:35:46 -0700 From: "Samuel Clements" <sclements@linkline.com> To: "'Maxim Sobolev'" <sobomax@portaone.com>, "'Sergey Mokryshev'" <mokr@mokr.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Extending cdboot with options "Press any key to boot from CD" prompt Message-ID: <20040820183544.4F2494C@smtp2.linkline.com> In-Reply-To: <4125DAAA.9050304@portaone.com>
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> > Windows 2000 and later checks for an active partition on HDD first, and > > display this message if none found. > > > > Is it hard to implement? > > Don't know for sure. Also you can have several hard drives, another > CD-ROMs, floppies etc., that set for bootstraping in BIOS after current > CD-ROM, so that I doubt that such detection is a good idea and worth > efforts. > Actually, I believe it checks to see if there is an active partition, then displays the message. Once the timeout occurs, it tries to boot off of the found active partition - independent of what is set as the next boot device in the BIOS. Of course if no active partition is found - no message is displayed, and the install CD just starts. -Sam
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