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Greg

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&gt; From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org]On Behalf Of
&gt; Robert Coggins
&gt; Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:05 AM
&gt; To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
&gt; Subject: Re: [ale] OT:Hard Drive Switcher
&gt;
&gt;
&gt; I agree with you about boot loaders...  But let me say this...  Windows
&gt; sucks.  It requires for some MS crap to be on hd0 and I do not want to
&gt; reformat and move partitions on all of my drives (not right now anyway)
&gt; just so that I can have windows in hd0.  I hardly use windows anyways.
&gt; I did not want to fight the system just to boot to windows once a month.
&gt;
&gt; Anyway, the way I was talking about is virtually a boot loader.  I do
&gt; NOT have to go into the bios.  There is an option I can press and it
&gt; gives a list of items I can boot from...   Floppy HDD-0 HDD-1 USB CDROM
&gt; etc...  I thought it was a pleasant surprise.
&gt;
&gt; Maybe (Hopefully) I am wrong about windows needing to have garbage on
&gt; HD0 and I can get it to work.  Please let me know if I am wrong.
&gt;
&gt; -Rob
&gt;
&gt; Geoffrey wrote:
&gt;
&gt; &gt; Robert Coggins wrote:
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt;&gt; Check you system board.  On mine I can tell it to boot from HDD 0 or
&gt; &gt;&gt; HDD 2  This worked for me when I found an old HDD of mine with win on
&gt; &gt;&gt; it.  I just put it in as slave. During post pressed escape to catch
&gt; &gt;&gt; the boot device and directed it to HDD 1 Worked like a champ.  No work
&gt; &gt;&gt; on boot loader required... and I didn't have to mess around with
&gt; &gt;&gt; building some sort of switch...
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; I still don't get it.  You obviously have to enter the bios to do this.
&gt; &gt;  It would be so much simpler to just use a boot loader.  You box boots,
&gt; &gt; you have menu, you select.  Why the painful alternatives to a
&gt; boot loader?
&gt; &gt;
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