On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:02:53PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:30, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:07:08AM +1200, cr wrote: > > > This may seem an odd place to ask this, but I'll bet some of the folks on > > > this list know more about the technicalities of booting Windoze than > > > Windoze users do ;) > > > > I know next to nothing about Windows and prefer to keep it like that:), > > but as I've kids that, like kids like, like to play games, I've been > > forced to atleast find out how play this trick. (example at the end) > > > > From experience, Win95/98 needs to be on the first drive, needs to be > > in a bootable primary partition which needs to be the only/first primary > > partition. > > On the first drive? I only ask because DOS, at least, ignores any drives it > can't recognise (so it ignores my ext2 in /dev/hda and my CD-ROM in hdb and > regards my /hdc1 as C: and my /hdd1 as D:). But Windows may be more picky.
It seems to behave the same way as DOS for me. > > Don't despair, GRUB is perfectly capable of _hiding_ specific partitions > > in the bootprocess, and many(?) BIOSses allow to swap the order of drives. > > Or I can just physically swap them over. My machine usually has its > covers off... ...but if you do this too often, you'll get weak contact springs in the connector and possibly broken strands in the cable adjacent to the connector if your connectors don't have those useful finger loops on them. Hence really annoying intermittent faults. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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