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