[ale] OT:Hard Drive Switcher

[Geoffrey]

Robert Coggins wrote:
> I agree with you about boot loaders...  But let me say this...  Windows 
> sucks.  It requires for some MS crap to be on hd0 and I do not want to 
> reformat and move partitions on all of my drives (not right now anyway) 
> just so that I can have windows in hd0.  I hardly use windows anyways. I 
> did not want to fight the system just to boot to windows once a month.

So you put it there and put Linux on another drive.

> 
> Anyway, the way I was talking about is virtually a boot loader.  I do 
> NOT have to go into the bios.  There is an option I can press and it 
> gives a list of items I can boot from...   Floppy HDD-0 HDD-1 USB CDROM 
> etc...  I thought it was a pleasant surprise.

I would agree, but not much different from a boot loader.  You still 
have to get both OS's installed.

> 
> Maybe (Hopefully) I am wrong about windows needing to have garbage on 
> HD0 and I can get it to work.  Please let me know if I am wrong.

I've not played with windows much of late, thankfully, but I think I 
recall booting windows off of a secondary drive, but that was with a 
boot loader.  If it had value to me, I'd play with it this evening, but 
there is no value to me. :)

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft