On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 07:05:29PM -0700, Joan Leach wrote: Can you use the
> motherboard's BIOS to select which hard drive to boot? Otherwise, I've
> used the Hiren's Boot CD or PLoP Live CD to select which hard drive to
> boot. With so many distros moving to GRUB 1 or 2, I haven't read that much
> about Lilo lately. Joan in Reno
Thanks for your reply: The PATA MB's BIOS supports a select boot for
either HD0 or HD1.. This SATA MB only allows selecting HD no number
designation.. It almost looks like SATA is like M$ in that it requires SATA
1 for booting.. Plus the boot order is different in that USB is not a
selection but hard coded and working.. Different to my eyes.. :^)..
Trying PLoP, SBM and other rescue disks that allow a 3rd party select;
all fail after what seems like a normal boot but isn't.. I've not tried
"Hiren," not familiar with it.. Will look that up..
I suspect most like Grub for the simple reason that LILO requires
running lilo after editing lilo.conf.. Grub doesn't require this but is
much more complicated otherwise.. IMHO..We're having fun, eh?? Thanks
again..
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