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From: pvi!todd@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Todd Bradley x293)
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Subject: Re: PCs Which Don't Boot from the Floppy by Default (PC)
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Date: 7 Jun 91 17:11:32 GMT
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>Does anyone know of any PCs, other than Zenith or Compaq, which have
>this (boot from hard disk by default, even if a floppy is present) as
>a standard feature?  Or, alternatively, which ROM BIOS products
>support this technique?  I am in the process of acquiring new machines
>for a student lab and have the opportunity to address the problem up
>front.

My CACHE motherboard uses their own proprietary BIOS and has a
configurable boot sequence, either C then A or A then C.  So if you
know there is a system on drive C, you can set it to the first mode
and it will never boot from A.  This saves time, too.

Todd.

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