[KLUG Members] Dual boot problem on home computer

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> On my home computer, I pulled the original HD that had a proprietary legacy
> OS and had been running Red Hat 9 on a 20GB drive with a small boot
> partition and LVM for the rest. But, I recently bought a 5 MPixel digital
> camera that required I install it on the legacy OS.
> I stuck the original drive back in on the secondary IDE controller and
> configured GRUB to give me a choice on bootup. Everything worked as it
> should, except that the legacy GUI took over 14 hours to boot. Once it
> loaded, the response time was normal, but 14 hours is a bit long to wait,
> even for a Redmond product. So, reluctantly, I had to put the original drive
> back in as the boot drive on the primary IDE controller.

Yep, that legacy OS *MUST* be on the primary drive of the first
channel.  Period.  Thats the way it works.  I'm mildly impressed that it
booted at all.