[ale] OT:Hard Drive Switcher

[Christopher Fowler]

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 11:28, Greg wrote:
> On one of my machines I have pretty much the same thing.  Power on, bios
> screen appears, a "boot menu" appears with all of my disks & sources
> (CD-ROM, burner, etc) and you just pick which device to boot from - really
> handy when things get broken or I'm playing around (basically the same as
> the former).
> 

That is a cool idea.  Is there a way to configure Grub to boot a
CD-ROM?  Instead of have it listed in the Bios as #1 I can have it in
grub on only select it as need.

> Greg
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> > Robert Coggins
> > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:05 AM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [ale] OT:Hard Drive Switcher
> >
> >
> > I agree with you about boot loaders...  But let me say this...  Windows
> > sucks.  It requires for some MS crap to be on hd0 and I do not want to
> > reformat and move partitions on all of my drives (not right now anyway)
> > just so that I can have windows in hd0.  I hardly use windows anyways.
> > I did not want to fight the system just to boot to windows once a month.
> >
> > Anyway, the way I was talking about is virtually a boot loader.  I do
> > NOT have to go into the bios.  There is an option I can press and it
> > gives a list of items I can boot from...   Floppy HDD-0 HDD-1 USB CDROM
> > etc...  I thought it was a pleasant surprise.
> >
> > Maybe (Hopefully) I am wrong about windows needing to have garbage on
> > HD0 and I can get it to work.  Please let me know if I am wrong.
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> > Geoffrey wrote:
> >
> > > Robert Coggins wrote:
> > >
> > >> Check you system board.  On mine I can tell it to boot from HDD 0 or
> > >> HDD 2  This worked for me when I found an old HDD of mine with win on
> > >> it.  I just put it in as slave. During post pressed escape to catch
> > >> the boot device and directed it to HDD 1 Worked like a champ.  No work
> > >> on boot loader required... and I didn't have to mess around with
> > >> building some sort of switch...
> > >
> > >
> > > I still don't get it.  You obviously have to enter the bios to do this.
> > >  It would be so much simpler to just use a boot loader.  You box boots,
> > > you have menu, you select.  Why the painful alternatives to a
> > boot loader?
> > >
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