Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:06:46 +0000

Venkateshr@ami.com said:
> we need some kind of signature being written in the drive, which the
> kernel will use for determining the boot drive and later re-order
> drives, if required.

> Is someone handling this already?

It should be possible to read the BIOS setting for this option and
behave accordingly. Please give full details of how to read and interpret
the information stored in the CMOS for all versions of AMI BIOS, and I'll
take a look at this.

--
dwmw2




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