On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:27:37PM +0200, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: > Kevin O'Connor wrote: > >We want the boot menu to be able to configure which drive becomes the > >C: drive, so the boot menu must be displayed prior to running the BCVs > >and Legacy Option ROMs. > > So this is more a BCV than IPL menu. Maybe the F12 message should be > renamed?
The menu shows both BCVs and IPLs. > >All BCVs and legacy option roms are always called. The only thing the > >boot menu does is determine the order of their invocation. (See > >boot.c:boot_prep().) If you have a counter-example then it is a bug > >and must be fixed. > > This is not intuitive because other BIOSes display a boot menu after > all BCV and legacy roms were called. I've seen multiple machines with a boot menu that allows one to select a drive to boot from. It's not uncommon - plug in a USB drive, and the boot menu will allow you to boot from it. -Kevin _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
