On Tue 10 Aug 04, 8:22 PM, P V Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I have a triple boot system with three drives: > > > > * /dev/hda - 80 GB PATA drive with Debian (root is /dev/hda5) > > * /dev/hde - 250 GB SATA drive with Win2k (root is /dev/hde1) > > * /dev/hdg - 200 GB SATA drive with Debian (root is /dev/hdg6) > > > > > > > I am not sure of this, but can windows boot from something other than than > the first partition of the first hard drive? > > p v mathew I've heard this too, but I don't really know what it means (or whether it's even true).
For instance, on a system with SCSI and PATA, how do you define first drive? Or in my case, a system with PATA and SATA, how do you define the first drive? Linux assigns drive letters like a, e, and g for convenience, but the PATA and SATA drives are on different buses, so in what sense is one "first"? But I've always heard this. I would like to know whether it's true once and for all, and what "first drive" means in that context. It would REALLY be nice if MS Windows printed something like: "I'm sorry, but I can't boot because you didn't make the drive that I live on the primary master" or something! :-) Pete -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
