Re: [LinuxBIOS] V3 fallback, failover, and the normal boot flag.

[Marc Jones]

ron minnich wrote:
> On 7/17/07, Corey Osgood  wrote:
> > Peter Stuge wrote:
> > > Also re CMOS checksum, I would like if LB could avoid clobbering the
> > > CMOS, for when switching back and forth with another BIOS.
> > >
> > > Writing LB CMOS bytes would be done after the final switch.
> > >
> > > //Peter
> >
> > Agreed
> >
> > -Corey
>
> So I guess the original logic is right.
> CMOS csum bad? fallback boot
> last boot normal not set? fallback boot
>
> but we still need the ability to clear one bit, so we can drop to
> fallback. That bit is the 'last boot normal' bit. We can't get away
> from clearing one bit. But we can avoid messing with cmos otherwise.
>
> ron

It seems that it is the behavior that most people want.

Marc