Is it possible to read BIOS setting?

[Lewis Thompson]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:26:47PM -0500, Pranav A. Desai wrote:
> If the hard disk fails (or becomes un-bootable) I would change the BIOS
> setting to boot from second disk or maybe from cdrom, repair or reimage
> the hard disk and reboot the box.

I might be wrong here (and haven't been following the thread) but
couldn't you just set the BIOS boot order to be: hdd0, hdd1, etc.

  That way, you could disable hdd0 from booting (I've done it loads of
times by mistake when messing with fdisk, so I'm sure you can do it on
purpose ;) and issue a reboot command.  hdd0 won't boot, so hdd1 will be
used instead.  At which point you run home and fix everything ;)

  Best wishes,

-lewiz.

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