Hi Jeremy,
Asus won't do anything to help, all they care about is selling their stuff and
getting rid of complaining customers, really... and as their technician don't
even know what PXE option are, how UEFI work and what a boot option is, we
can't expect any bug report from them.
The problem is when the ODD (set as boot option 1) has NO bootable disk inside
or is empty. Then Asus computers don't check boot option 2 (the HDD).
For me there's no way FreeDOS could be the cause of this error message "Reboot
and Select properBoot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and
press a key_".
But do we have a way to determine if yes or no Asus integrated FreeDOS in their
computers ?
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:43:58 -0400
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS compatibility issue according to Asus
On Mar 19, 2015 9:23 PM, "Teddy T." <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Good Evening,
>
...
> Could someone please confirm if FreeDOS may really cause this kind of
> problem, if it could prevent a BIOS from using several boot options, making
> it unable to switch automatically between them ? And if this behaviour is
> really caused by FreeDOS, are FreeDOS and Asus teams working together to
> propose patches or updates to solve errors like this one ?
>
...
> Regards.
>
> - Teddy T.
...
Please see previous replies from others on this list. Unless you have a disk,
real or virtual in the drive there is no way FreeDOS could directly cause the
failure. If there is a disk involved, then there could be incompatibilities
but this is the first report of them I recall seeing. Additional information
is needed to determine where in the boot process the failure occurs and which
component is involved, ie way disk fdisk/formatted, or maybe boot sector on
virtual image, and then is it floppy, hd, CD boot code, ...
To answer your second question, no we are not working to fix it. However, if
it is a problem with FreeDOS and something we can reasonably fix or work
around, then it may be fixed if we get more information. As they seem to know
the cause, at minimum a bug report would be nice, preferably with details of
what point and how FreeDOS is involved in the booting.
Jeremy
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