Hi Teddy, the whole point of a boot virus is that it makes the infected disk bootable, at least for booting the virus.
Of course if the disk has no operating system on it, you get an error message - after you get infected :-p I do not know why "every" PC had a default to boot from CD, DVD or floppy instead of harddisk. It does not make sense in particular because "every" PC has Windows pre- installed on harddisk, so you never have to boot anything else. I only know that I myself always avoid such config. I would not sue a vendor about "wrong" defaults, though. The modern BIOS "which drive do you want to boot from" menu is loaded BEFORE the harddisk or SSD is loaded, so it does not make any difference how fast SSD are. You are right that modern BIOS are a bit in a hurry. However, if you set your BIOS to always try floppy and CD/DVD first, you boot slower, because you first have to spin up the engine of your floppy and CD/DVD drive and try if the data on the floppy or CD/DVD will boot. Also, it is noisy and makes your drive wear out faster. It is indeed stupid of Asus that they let you configure a LIST of drives to try to boot from, with an order of preference, but then always try only the FIRST drive on the list! Instead of forcing the PC to turn off, other options would be 1. insert a boot CD and 2. press reset, maybe simply press ctrl-alt-del. So Asus has two choices: Make their BIOS smarter to try other drives after the preferred drive turns out to not have a boot disk inserted. OR change the menu to give you only ONE drive to configure as bootable, instead of a whole list... Either way, this is NOT DOS related :-) I am also not aware of any reasons of Asus why they would "sue FreeDOS", has anybody told you that they would like? Regarding your problem: You probably can NOT sue Asus as well. The problem is too small. You can only keep pushing them to make their BIOS smarter or remove that list menu. As you know, you can easily install an updated BIOS from them, IF they take the effort to make one for that board. Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
