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

[Bruce Smith]

>>Okay, I think you are missing my point. You missed my note of
>>'There are some "tricks" you can play with either the BIOS'.
>>
> IF telling the motherboard to boot another drive is tricking it, then 
> turning on my blinkers in my car is tricking my car to do tmhat, too. 


I think the point is these BIOS tricks are NON-STANDARD.
Many BIOS do NOT have this capability.  I don't have that
option on any of my PC's, at home or work.

I never worry about it because I don't run windows, and
Linux can boot off any drive in the system accessable
from the BIOS.  No BIOS tweak needed to boot Linux.  :-)


> When I think of tricks, I think of 'doing something that it wasn't really meant 
> to, but I've managed to do somehow, at the cost of stability and life'. 
> Overclocking is tricking, in my book. 


Personally, I consider overclocking a "hack",
but we're just mixing words now . . .

> Telling it to boot another drive is 
> just letting it do it's job.  I think now that motherboards are smarter, 
> and let you do so much more, it's a misnomer to call it a trick, and, to 
> boot (no pun intended), it confuses people.


I still consider it a trick, because my PC's can't do it.

And it would also seem to be a PAIN because I don't want
to spend the time going into the BIOS to make a change
just to boot a another OS on a different hard drive.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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