If this is the wrong place to post this, please feel free to delete (and advised where i should place it).
First, i have two Asrock boards - an old 880GM and a newer Z77 Pro-4 i love hem both! And am looking into a Z97 Pro sometime over the next month. So, obviously, i'm a fanboy.
As seen in my profile, i use a tri-boot system. But it doesn't rely on any one boot loader. Instead each OS is installed on a separate drive and i chose the OS by hitting F11 on POST and selecting the drive i wish to boot from. This pre-empts MBR issues common to dual booting system. It also pre-empts issues with image backups with some older backup software, such as but no limited to Acronis True Image and ReDo Backup and Restore.
So here's my suggestion for some future BIOS releases. A BIOS setting, off by default, that would allow the BIOS to advance directly to the select boot device screen without having to press F11.
Also, a feature that would allow the complete disabling of selected SATA ports such that the mobo would actually see them as unplugged as opposed to lugged but disabled. Currently, with the BIOS in my Z77 Pro-4, if i unplug the drive end of a sata port that has been configured as a boot device, the system will not boot. I have to unplug the drive at the mobo to accomplish that.
While neither of these ideas is going to change the face of computing (LOL) both, and especially the boot to "select boot device" screen would be a major plus for those of us who like to dual boot and might even be a selling feature. Especially with more and more people running more than one OS.
Thanks.
Larry
First, i have two Asrock boards - an old 880GM and a newer Z77 Pro-4 i love hem both! And am looking into a Z97 Pro sometime over the next month. So, obviously, i'm a fanboy.
As seen in my profile, i use a tri-boot system. But it doesn't rely on any one boot loader. Instead each OS is installed on a separate drive and i chose the OS by hitting F11 on POST and selecting the drive i wish to boot from. This pre-empts MBR issues common to dual booting system. It also pre-empts issues with image backups with some older backup software, such as but no limited to Acronis True Image and ReDo Backup and Restore.
So here's my suggestion for some future BIOS releases. A BIOS setting, off by default, that would allow the BIOS to advance directly to the select boot device screen without having to press F11.
Also, a feature that would allow the complete disabling of selected SATA ports such that the mobo would actually see them as unplugged as opposed to lugged but disabled. Currently, with the BIOS in my Z77 Pro-4, if i unplug the drive end of a sata port that has been configured as a boot device, the system will not boot. I have to unplug the drive at the mobo to accomplish that.
While neither of these ideas is going to change the face of computing (LOL) both, and especially the boot to "select boot device" screen would be a major plus for those of us who like to dual boot and might even be a selling feature. Especially with more and more people running more than one OS.
Thanks.
Larry
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