[SeaBIOS] doe's seabios support retry booting from other disk if boot from one disk failed

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Sun Oct 28 02:06:21 CET 2012


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.

-Kevin



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