id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
34	Airboot fails when *internal* usb mutli card reader is accidentally added to BIOS Boot Options	losepete	Ben Rietbroek	"Not sure if this is related to ticket #31

I created an ArcaOS5.0.4 install usb flash drive, rebooted and set BIOS to support USB boot (enabled Legacy USB), booted the usb flash drive to the Maintenance Console (simply to test booting from usb flash drive works), made no system changes, clicked Shutdown and rebooted.

On reboot from hard disk the Airboot Menu (Airboot v1.1.1) failed to appear instead displaying this message:-

Scanning...
- Your system has at least one broken partition table entry or your hard drive contains bad sectors. System halted.(HDD2)


Initially I wondered if booting the USB flash drive had caused some sort of partition table mixup.

After booting from an ArcaOS5.0.1 dvd to a Maintenance Console and running DFSee I was sure that there were no bad partition tables or bad sectors as DFSee reported no problems.

I did open a discussion on os2world.com - see https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php?topic=2447 - and 1 answer prompted me to check through the BIOS again.

I then discovered that enabling USB boot support in the BIOS had automatically added my *internal* usb multi card reader to the Boot List.

I removed that device from the Boot List, Saved and Exited BIOS, boot continued with the Airboot Menu appearing.

I can only deduce that Airboot is not capable of recognising *empty* usb multi card reader drives (slots) and either ignoring them or displaying a more appropriate message eg:-

Airboot has detected empty USB drives. Please reset BIOS to remove the USB device(s) from the BIOS Boot List options.
"	defect	accepted	major		Boot Manager	1.0