Re: [Cooker] stupid question - BIOS boot from second HD

2001-12-16 Thread guran
On Sunday 16 December 2001 3:14 am, Oden Eriksson wrote: Don't know, but I read something about this regarding the freebios project. Sorry for this, but you sent me a personal e-mail in swedish and I responded promptly - but my mail bounced (twice) and said it was not accepted. Your filter

Re: [Cooker] stupid question - BIOS boot from second HD

2001-12-16 Thread Oden Eriksson
On Sundayen den 16 December 2001 13.02, guran wrote: On Sunday 16 December 2001 3:14 am, Oden Eriksson wrote: Don't know, but I read something about this regarding the freebios project. Sorry for this, but you sent me a personal e-mail in swedish and I responded promptly - but my mail

Re: [Cooker] stupid question - BIOS boot from second HD

2001-12-14 Thread Pierre Fortin
Andrej, This sounds a bit like the problem I had on my old Sparc where I installed on the external drive and specifying the boot device did not help until I changed something in the lilo.conf... My failing memory thinks it was something like init=... If you don't figure it out, I'll be home

Re: [Cooker] stupid question - BIOS boot from second HD

2001-12-14 Thread J.A. Magallon
On 20011214 Borsenkow Andrej wrote: I have Windows on primary HD and Linux on secondary. BIOS support booting from the second drive. I'd like to get rid of boot loader and leave Windows on the first disk with its own loader and install lilo/grub on the MBR of the second HD. It does not work -

Re: [Cooker] stupid question - BIOS boot from second HD

2001-12-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:24:53 +0100 J.A. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20011214 Borsenkow Andrej wrote: I have Windows on primary HD and Linux on secondary. BIOS support booting from the second drive. I'd like to get rid of boot loader and leave Windows on the first disk with its own

Re: [Cooker] stupid question - BIOS boot from second HD

2001-12-14 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
On ðÔÎ, 2001-12-14 at 18:00, Charles A Edwards wrote: It is both safer and easier than using the BIOS as a 'bootloader'. As well as the fact that using the BIOS in such a manner on a regular basis can cause severe and unrepairable damage to the BIOS itself and once its gone so is the MOBO.