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Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> writes: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:08:29PM -0400, John Abreau wrote: > > The problem is the typical PC boots only from hda and is unable to > > boot from hdc. > > Then what is the BIOS asking about when it lets me say what I want to > boot from? For example, HDD-0, HDD-1, HDD-2, and HDD-3, CDROM, LAN, > etc.? I assumed that this means it would look for an MBR on the > specified disk. Is this a new feature not in early BIOSes? I've never seen that type of support in a PC's BIOS. Your typical motherboard gives a simpler selection of "HDD, FLOPPY, CDROM", and a few offer a "Boot from SCSI BIOS" option in addition. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix IM: jabr at jabber.blu.org / abreauj at aim / abreauj at yahoo / 28611923 at icq Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 Some people say, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." I often respond, "When elephants fight, it's the grass that gets trampled." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 344 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20020925/9e5f6e85/attachment.sig>
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