[PLUG] booting weirdness
Russell Senior
seniorr at aracnet.com
Mon Oct 6 21:51:01 UTC 2003
>>>>> "Mike" == Mike De La Mater <mikedela at ipns.com> writes:
Mike> I'm trying to salvage some data off an old drive, so I hook it
Mike> up as HDC, secondary master on my IDE system. I check the boot
Mike> order and it is clearly set to HD0, the primary master. I set
Mike> all boot devices to HD0, just to be sure. (Options are 0, 1, 2,
Mike> 3)
Mike> BIOS finds the extra drive as the secondary master, but for some
Mike> strange reason, my system boots to it.
a) What makes you think so?
b) What _is_ at /dev/hda?
b) LILO or GRUB?
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