[ale] OT:Hard Drive Switcher
Geoffrey
esoteric at 3times25.net
Fri May 14 09:43:42 EDT 2004
Robert Coggins wrote:
> Check you system board. On mine I can tell it to boot from HDD 0 or HDD
> 2 This worked for me when I found an old HDD of mine with win on it. I
> just put it in as slave. During post pressed escape to catch the boot
> device and directed it to HDD 1 Worked like a champ. No work on boot
> loader required... and I didn't have to mess around with building some
> sort of switch...
I still don't get it. You obviously have to enter the bios to do this.
It would be so much simpler to just use a boot loader. You box boots,
you have menu, you select. Why the painful alternatives to a boot loader?
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Until later, Geoffrey Registered Linux User #108567
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