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

[Sergey Mokryshev]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> Sergey Mokryshev wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>

How about taking a partition table from the default hard drive (drive 0x80 
through INT 13h)?

I think it is the way BIOS works.

Sergey
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