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What does BDS mean in the MS-DOS sources? (Miscellaneous)

posted by ecm  , Düsseldorf, Germany, 10.05.2024, 22:12

> > Perhaps Boot Device Selection & Boot Device Selection Minidisk ?
>
> According to the tech blog at the AMI website:
>
> https://www.ami.com/blog/2019/03/27/acronym-soup-what-is-bds/
>
> one possibility *is* "Boot Device Selection". In short: "a BIOS function
> that allows a user to select and prioritize the order in which the system
> should attempt to boot from different media devices".
>
> There is a page of info.
>
> - Doug

I don't think this is actually the same as MS-DOS's. At that stage the MSBIO enumerates all file systems to which to allow access as to-be DOS drives. One of these was used to boot the MSDOS module off, and also to read config.sys from, but other than that there is no "boot device" involved and certainly no "selection".

(I replaced MSLOAD and the DOS loader in MSBIO to use my iniload/drload/inicomp/drkernpl stages for a single-file load, but that is irrelevant here.)

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Complete thread:

• What does BDS mean in the MS-DOS sources? - ecm, 10.05.2024, 14:14 (Miscellaneous)
  • What does BDS mean in the MS-DOS sources? - glennmcc, 10.05.2024, 18:20
    • What does BDS mean in the MS-DOS sources? - Doug, 10.05.2024, 21:30
      • What does BDS mean in the MS-DOS sources? - ecm, 10.05.2024, 22:12
  • What does BDS mean in the MS-DOS sources? - usotsuki, 11.05.2024, 03:32