"Robert Heiling" wrote:
> Timothy Daniels wrote:
>>
>> "Robert Heiling" wrote:
>> > The Bios Boot Menu IS an entry in the "BIOS" via a different
>> > path. BTW Selection of a drive and booting from it from the
>> > Boot Menu moves it to the top of the default list. During the
>> > period when I was repairing my wife's PC and had her Win98
>> > HD added in this computer, we used that Boot Menu to boot
>> > her Win98. If she had been the last user of the system any day,
>> > I would get her Win98 instead of my Win2k menu when I turned
>> > on the system the next morning if I forgot to go into the Bios
>> > Boot Menu. I later simplified the process by adding her Win98
>> > to the boot.ini along with Win2k, WinXP, and Linux.
>>
>> What you're calling a "BIOS boot menu" is usually called
>> the "hard drive boot order" which is in the BIOS. A "boot
>> menu" is usually what is put on the screen by a boot
>> manager to present the optional OSes which may be
>> booted.
>
> Uh uh. I'm calling it exactly what it calls itself - "Boot Menu". Please
> read my (apparently failed) attempt to get the point across. If you've
> never seen this feature in a Bios before, then I can understand your
> confusion, but it's a parallel to holding down the DEL key during system
> startup in order to get into the Bios CMOS setup.


Then call it whatever you and your BIOS author call it, but
most people who deal with WinXP/Win2K boot procedures
will think you're referring to the menu derived from boot.ini
which is displayed by the loader.

*TimDaniels*