On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 07:35 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 20:00 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: > > > > > > > Unfortunately, there isn't a reliable way on PC hardware to *know* the > > BIOS boot order. And thus, everyone suffers. > > > > Windows doesn't see drivers that are disabled in the BIOS; I guess > freedos doesn't either. That's true *sometimes*. Not always. Some hardware does things right, and when it does we both get this right I think. Maybe even most hardware these days. But there's a LOT of hardware that doesn't. > If grub ignored those drives too, it would help. Is this possible/difficult? We're already checking for that, but many machines just don't present the data, or they present data that is useless or even just plain wrong. -- Peter
