On Monday 12 September 2005 06:43 pm, Covington, Chris wrote:
> > Trouble is when the SCSI is replaced and it is not thought of because
>
> the
>
> > OS is on the IDE HD. For me it would be cleaner to boot with a floppy
>
> or
>
> > CD and (even keep a couple of spare floppies). I have trouble
>
> remembering
>
> > certian things, the location of the MBR on SCSI 0 would be one of
>
> those
>
> > things.....
>
> Well it's just as hard to remember that the MBR is on the floppy or the
> cdrom as it is on the SCSI disk.
>
> If it's about remembering which SCSI disk, just run a cron job or init
> script which installs the Grub MBR in all of your SCSI disks so you
> won't have to worry about remembering.
Thats an idea, although it isn't that hard remembering the mbr is on a floppy 
if there is one in teh machine, I don't think any of my other machines have a 
floppy in them ever, let alone at boot time...

Mike
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Michael W. Holdeman


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