RE: Extending cdboot with options "Press any key to boot from CD" prompt

From: Samuel Clements (sclements_at_linkline.com)
Date: 08/20/04

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    To: "'Maxim Sobolev'" <sobomax@portaone.com>, "'Sergey Mokryshev'" <mokr@mokr.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:35:46 -0700

    > > Windows 2000 and later checks for an active partition on HDD first, and
    > > display this message if none found.
    > >
    > > Is it hard to implement?
    >
    > Don't know for sure. Also you can have several hard drives, another
    > CD-ROMs, floppies etc., that set for bootstraping in BIOS after current
    > CD-ROM, so that I doubt that such detection is a good idea and worth
    > efforts.
    >

    Actually, I believe it checks to see if there is an active partition, then
    displays the message. Once the timeout occurs, it tries to boot off of the
    found active partition - independent of what is set as the next boot device
    in the BIOS. Of course if no active partition is found - no message is
    displayed, and the install CD just starts.
      -Sam

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