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Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:36:37 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Sergey Mokryshev <mokr@mokr.net>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Extending cdboot with options "Press any key to boot from CD" prompt
Message-ID:  <20040820153414.V640@lemori.mokr.net>
In-Reply-To: <4125DAAA.9050304@portaone.com>
References:  <4124B473.9070004@portaone.com> <20040820145419.H640@lemori.mokr.net> <4125DAAA.9050304@portaone.com>

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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> Sergey Mokryshev wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>

How about taking a partition table from the default hard drive (drive 0x80 
through INT 13h)?

I think it is the way BIOS works.

Sergey
-- 
Sergey S. Mokryshev <mokr@mokr.net>
SMP453, MOKR-RIPN



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