Hi Teddy, as this thread got rather long, I reply to some snippets from several of your mails in one single reply mail here :-)
> For the past 20 years, since Windows 95, most (or maybe all) PCs had the HDD > as third or forth boot option, mainly after floppy disk and optical drive. No, that is not a wise setting: It increases virus risk. It is better to put floppy and optical before harddisk only on days when you actually want to boot from a floppy or optical disk. And yes, DOS virus of course do exist, but if you boot from a CD or DVD, the virus does not care. There can also be a virus for Windows or other operating systems on that CD or DVD :-p > - we need computers capable of using LiveCDs, I understand that for you and other users it feels convenient to select a setting which says "boot from any CD or DVD that you can find - if you can not find one, boot from harddisk"... > - we change all necessary settings in the bios (checked and confirmed ok), Modern BIOS also often has the option to press a function key at boot to get a menu to select which drive you want to boot. This is easy for you as user and safer, because the function key has effect only when you use it. LiveCD does not stay on permanently. > - now boot option 1 is ODD and boot option 2 is HDD. > - if LiveCD is in ODD = fine, we can use the ODD, So far so good. Does it support all your LiveCD or only specific variants? For example, does it require LiveCD to have UEFI boot? > - if the ODD is empty = not fine, the PC is unable to boot on HDD as if > there was no boot option 2 and it shows error message "Reboot and Select > proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press > a key_" I understand your problem here: It does not silently try the next drive on the preference list. However, because it is a preference LIST, I assume it will try the next drive after you press a key? Otherwise, it would be more intuitive to only have a single BIOS setting to select only a single bootable drive. Not a drive list. Note that so far, nothing of the above seems to have anything to do with FreeDOS. Please explain what makes you (or Asus) think it does have any DOS related reason... Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
