On 10/28/12 02:06, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 03:52:04PM +0800, Eli wrote:
hi all:
Does anyone know that if seabiso support booting from other disk if boot from one failed ?
For instance, the PC BIOS boot specification allows only one disk to be bootable. If boot from disk fails for some reason, the BIOS won't retry booting from other disk. It still can try to boot from floppy or net, though.I want to know that if seabios support retry booting from other disk?
SeaBIOS follows the specifications, and so only the C drive can be booted. Unfortunately, once the C drive is assigned it can't be changed reliably. So, ultimately SeaBIOS has the same limitation as other BIOS here.
What is the problem here? Fall back to ide/sata hard disk when booting from usb stick (which is treated as hard disk too) failed would be useful.
It certainly would be a non-trivial change to the boot order code as this would involve changing the disk mapping, rewriting edd tables and maybe more.
But on a quick glance I can't see why it wouldn't work reliably.
cheers, Gerd