| Stephen Gran on 6 Jan 2007 02:39:49 -0000 |
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On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 09:29:01PM -0500, Art Alexion said: > > The new computer has an internal firewire hard drive. I has two IDE slots. > The DVD+-RW is connected to one. I installed his old IDE hard drive as a > master on the other IDE slot. > > When he took it home and started it, it wants to boot from the IDE drive > first, thus booting his old OS tuned for incompatible hardware. [snip] > I suppose if it can't be done we can re-install the OS and applications on the > IDE drive and use the firewire drive for data. If the bootloader on the IDE drive is reasonably clever, it might be simplest to just set up a default chainloader entry, that then hands off booting to the other drive. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Any clod can have the facts, but having | | steve@lobefin.net | opinions is an art. -- Charles McCabe | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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