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 -- Sergey S. Mokryshev <mokr_at_mokr.net> SMP453, MOKR-RIPNReceived on Fri Aug 20 2004 - 09:36:44 UTC
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