Hello,
I would like to submit the patch attached, regarding the bootorder documentation. -- Regards Maxime de Roucy
diff --git a/docs/Runtime_config.md b/docs/Runtime_config.md index 962a8a9..0c51d54 100644 --- a/docs/Runtime_config.md +++ b/docs/Runtime_config.md @@ -159,6 +159,12 @@ into bootorder. For example, the file: will instruct SeaBIOS to attempt to boot from the given USB drive first and then attempt the given ATA harddrive second. +Beware, if an USB drive is plugged but not bootable SeaBIOS will **not** +try to boot from the ATA harddrive. +This is due to the fact that USB drive and harddrive are both of type +"HARDDRIVE" and SeaBIOS can't boot from multiple device of this type +(it's the same with the "FLOPPY" type). +See the [SeaBIOS source code](http://code.coreboot.org/p/seabios/source/tree/master/src/boot.c#L528). SeaBIOS also supports a special "HALT" directive. If a line that contains "HALT" is found in the bootorder file then SeaBIOS will (by
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