[ale] OT:Hard Drive Switcher

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Fri May 14 15:02:12 EDT 2004


Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 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.

I'm just guessing that all you'd have to do is put the proper values in 
grub, after all, it's just another device.  This is something I might 
like to play with later...

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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