| Art Alexion on 10 Jan 2007 16:43:25 -0000 |
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On Saturday 06 January 2007 12:24, Bob Heise wrote: > fredag 05 januari 2007 21:39 skrev Stephen Gran: > > 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. > > I agree, this should be possible. On my desktop I have /boot on /dev/hdd4 > and grub, which is installed on the MBR of /dev/hda points at it. As long > as both drives are in the boot list it should work, the order at this point > doesn't matter since grub is doing the dirty work. Uh, the OS involved does not use grub or lilo by default, hence the reason for OT in the subject. The friend involved is freaked out enough by the ubiquitous OS -- giving him choices would lead to dangerous mental instability. :-) -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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