Good morning all,
Soren: a quick suggestion regarding the USB boot code: in an embedded
computer world, it would seem useful to have a BIOS setting to specify
which of the USB ports of the EG20T should be scanned for a USB boot device.
Something similar to the BootDrive BIOS parameter, like this:
set usbprobe = 04 02 03 01
set usbprobe = 04 01
...
(where 01=JP3 port, 02-03=JP4 ports, 04=JP5 USB port)
This would allow us to specify boot order, and also prevent people from
plugging a bootable device into the external USB port and overriding the
normal boot sequence... accessorily, it would also let us exclude from
the boot probe any device which is currently causing problems.
In my case, I would like to limit the boot code to just the JP5 device
in normal day-to-day operations (so 'set usbprobe=04').
If that's too hard, at least a setting like 'set UsbBoot = 01' would be
useful ( 00 = no USB boot, 01 = boot from JP5 only, 02 = boot from any
USB device ) or something like that would be great!
Denis
PS. The BootOrder BIOS parameter is not as useful as it used to be,
because we no longer know for sure which device is going to be 80, 81,
or 82... as USB scan code may mean that sometimes the internal drive is
80, but suddenly if something is connected on the outside USB port, 80
may be a different device.
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