[ale] OT:Hard Drive Switcher

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

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
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft