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Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector?

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On 17/01/2012 9:23 PM, R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, Paul.
>
> Yes, I probably should apologize to you and Rod and Arno - and Yousuf.
> I'm guilty of being focused solely on Windows, especially Win7. I don't
> normally read comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage and didn't notice before
> my Replies that Yousuf had cross-posted his question to that NG, as well
> as to alt.windows7.general, where I was reading it. If I had noticed, I
> would have clarified that my remarks apply only to Windows. In my youth
> <g> I experimented with other OSes, up until about OS/2, but haven't
> looked at Linux, or at other systems since then.
>
> Thanks for pointing out the differences in booting with non-Windows
> systems.

Well, maybe I should've asked in a Linux group as well, since it is 
installed and it gets affected as well. But the majority of my debugging 
is being done under Windows, so I didn't want to confuse the issue.

I'm also using Grub (Legacy) as my boot loader on my boot disk, but that 
really doesn't make a difference to this problem. Whether I'm using Grub 
or Windows' own loader directly, they are both effectively bypassed when 
the boot disk order gets messed up by the BIOS.

So getting back to the original problem, there is no boot disk 
redirector utility that can effectively just tell the BIOS that "Hey, 
I'm not the boot disk, go to the next disk"?

	Yousuf Khan

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Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-16 08:11 -0500
  Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-16 13:40 +0000
    Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-16 09:56 -0500
      Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> - 2012-01-16 13:20 -0600
        Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-17 06:27 +1100
        Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-17 01:30 +0000
        Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-17 03:44 -0500
          Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-01-17 04:20 -0500
          Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> - 2012-01-17 11:53 -0600
            Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-01-17 15:42 -0500
              Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-17 21:07 +0000
                Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-01-17 19:23 -0500
              Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> - 2012-01-17 20:23 -0600
                Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-18 03:22 +0000
                Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-18 16:05 -0500
            Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-18 15:50 -0500
              Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Wolf K <wekirch@sympatico.ca> - 2012-01-18 16:55 -0500
                Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-18 19:30 -0500
          Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-18 07:04 +1100
      Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-17 06:24 +1100
      Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-17 01:29 +0000
  Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-01-16 12:58 -0500
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