I will look if Lenovo Thinkpad provides any control to modify the BIOS parameters. <br><br>Thank you all for your inputs :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Tim Golden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@timgolden.me.uk">mail@timgolden.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Vernon Cole wrote:<br>
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Gowtham:<br>
I waited before giving this answer, to let the real Windows Gurus answer<br>
first. Tims pronouncement is as good is it gets, so here is my hair-brained<br>
idea. Perhaps it would actually work.<br>
<br>
As much as I hate to admit this on a Windows mailing list ...<br>
When I have multi-boot things to accomplish, I install a copy of Linux and<br>
use GRUB to do the fancy boot stuff.<br>
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As a matter of fact we're in the process of testing exactly<br>
this solution for the Digital Escalator Panels we run here<br>
on the London Underground. The requirement isn't quite the<br>
same but, in essence, we needed a degree of boot resilience<br>
which we couldn't get without a more configurable boot loader.<br>
<br>
However... this doesn't help the OP since GRUB runs (depending<br>
to configuration) from the MBR of the first bootable device. What<br>
the OP wants to do is to determine which device *is* the<br>
principal boot device.<br>
<br>
:)<br>
<br>
TJG<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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