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diff --git a/contrib/auto-default/mail b/contrib/auto-default/mail deleted file mode 100644 index 015c789a..00000000 --- a/contrib/auto-default/mail +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ -Date: 11/9/2001 3:56 PM -Received: 11/9/2001 4:05 PM -From: Steve Tilden, stilden@sicom-sys.com - -... - -2) I have added conditional code to main.c from Etherboot 5.0.4 to add -a new default boot option and I have included the modified main.c as an -attachment to this message. - -As I received Etherboot 5.0.4, in the Config file, if you select -ASK_BOOT with a non zero time-out option, then you also get to set -ANS_DEFAULT = ANS_NETWORK or ANS_DEFAULT = ANS_LOCAL to determine what -will happen if the operator does not respond to the prompt. I have now -added conditional code in main.c such that if you set ANS_DEFAULT = -ANS_AUTO, the default answer will be set according to whether or not -there is a hard disk in the system (as detected by the BIOS). If a hard -disk is present, then if the operator does nothing, the system will boot -from it. If a hard disk does not exist, then again if the operator does -nothing, the system will boot via the network. Either way, for our -particular environment, the operator has to do nothing to get it to boot -correctly. Yet the operator can still override the default selection -to, for example, allow a unit without a hard disk, to boot directly from -a floppy rather than the network, or to allow a unit with a hard disk, -to boot from the network. - -I don't know it the code I have added might be correct for a future -production version of Etherboot, but I thought I'd send it to you and -let you get it into the system if you feel it might be appropriate. - -Thanks, - -Steve Tilden -Sicom Systems Inc. -stilden@sicom-sys.com - -[Ed: On a compliant BIOS, it will actually boot the next device in the -BIOS list if local is selected, either explicitly or by timeout, which -may or may not be the hard disk, which is why it's less than general and -not included in the distribution by default.] |