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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Change the order of boot selection
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.191543.12331@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 19:15:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: sj.1991Apr2.191543.12331
References: <1991Mar28.190430.4005@hubcap.clemson.edu> <3113@kluge.fiu.edu>
Reply-To: poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca.
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In article <3113@kluge.fiu.edu> id8rld06@serss0.fiu.edu (Michael N Johnston) writes:
>>>I want to change the order the system looks for the valid system disk
>>>from A:, B:, C:... to C:, A:, B:...  so that either the hard drive is
>>>check first, or that the disk drives are not checked. I would prefer to
>>>just change the order, not knock out the diskette drives.
>
>The order in which the system checks for a boot disk is A: then C:. B:
>is never checked as a boot drive (execpt on one card I remember reading
>about). Neither is D:, E:, etc. checked. The only bootable drives are A:
>and C:. At startup, the computer verifies that drive B: is present, but
>it never tries to boot from it.
>    The only way to have the computer try booting from drive C: first
>is to have no A: drive in the machine (ie. disconnect the drive cable
>or disable the drive in setup). But you said you would rather not
>sacrifice a floppy. However, if you simply tell setup that there is no
>drive A: you can always easily reenable it when you need it (just a
>suggestion for machines with setup in ROM).
>    Unfortunately there is no way to change the order in which the
>computer checks its boot drives.
>

This isn't quite true either. It first checks A:, then the first hard drive
partition. I have three floppies, A:, B:, and C:. My HD starts at D: and it
boots fine from there.

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