[KLUG Members] Win2k+linux and some questions on Hard drives

[Bryan J. Smith]

Adam Bultman wrote:
> Um, not that I've found.  I've found that it's more a function
> of the motherboard.  My ASUS P3B-F lets me boot any drive
> whatsoever.  I booted windows 98 and 2k from the secondary master
> for a while.  Windows didn't care at all.
> Secondary master was a CDROM.  I'm quite sure my Intel SE440BX-2
> lets me boot any drive, too.  My computer at work also doesn't boot
> the first drive.  If I'm not mistaken, it boots the primary slave.
> It's an AMD box with an ASUS motherboard, too.  My gigabyte also
> lets me boot any drive, too, and I imagine if I decided to switch
> jumpers, things would be fine.

Okay, I think you are missing my point. You missed my note of
'There are some "tricks" you can play with either the BIOS'.

Windows can only boot off of the drive that is assigned BIOS fixed disk
0x80.  If your first fixed disk is on a latter channel, or you "hide"
your other drives before it in the BIOS, it gets assigned BIOS 0x80.

You can also use LILO (GRUB as well?) to reassign what drive is BIOS
0x80.  You can also use some boot managers to do the same.

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