BIOS/CMOS: Boot order (looking for Boot Sector)

clipped from www.proprofs.com This determines the order in which the computer has to look in to the devices like CD, floppy or hard disks for a boot sector The normal order of the search is Floppy Drive IDE primary master IDE primary slave IDE secondary master IDE secondary slave Off-chipset controllers, like SCSI cards, PCI IDE cards or their on-board counterparts. This order may be altered using this option. Once the boot sector is located, the BIOS will continue with the loading of the operating system files.