Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 01:35:56 +0100 From: Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.info> To: "Pranav A. Desai" <pdesai1@cs.uh.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it possible to read BIOS setting? Message-ID: <20030725003556.GC18766@lewiz.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0307241610550.15679-100000@themis.cs.uh.edu> References: <3F204A80.1050801@xonix.com> <Pine.GSO.4.33.0307241610550.15679-100000@themis.cs.uh.edu>
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--eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Who's on first? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jab:lewiz@jabber.org | url:http://lewiz.net |- --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/IHtsItq0KFQv7T8RApVRAJ4+28cWQngcJOtSAJiqXmMCtijO/gCgytpT tS4GonuBsH5N/kTt0HMNqSQ= =9Zb0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz--
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