Moving boot

[Peter Connolly]

I have a mental image of a group of people named Karl, Tim, Les et. al. who
spend their entire day rebooting their machines over and over...  ;-)


On 8/20/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
>     I'm not going to answer Les because he keeps changing the message to
> other topics that have nothing to do with this one. The subject is that
> I have a setup right now on my computer that is IMPOSSIBLE if, the rules
> for BIOS being thrown around are even close to being correct. I think
> they are at best too old or just wrong.
>
>     I have right now grub on the MBR of the Master Hard Drive which is
> (hd0) and the /boot/grub/ that the grub directs BIOS to find is on the
> second Hard Drive at /dev/sdb6/ which is (hd1,5) in Grub talk. I checked
> and /boot/grub/ is at least 7,000 cylinders up the second hard drive ;-)
>
>     So my point to Les and all of you is that BIOS works a whole lot
> better than everyone seems to think. It goes all the way to the second
> hard drive from the first, and then 7,000 cylinders more and starts my
> system. Every time for years 8-)
>
>
> --
>
>         Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>         Linux User
>         #450462   http://counter.li.org.
>
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