Re: Weird: 30 sec delay during early boot

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:21:34AM +0200, David Balazic wrote:
 > Wouldn't the BIOS immediatelly respond with a "no such disk" error if int13
 > would
 > try to access a non-existing disk ?
 > This is BIOS land, not hardware land.

The BIOS guys get their stash from a different dealer to the hardware guys.
Screwups happen. It could just be yet another 'interesting' interpretation
of specifications.

		Dave

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