> As for boot order, I *think* it's in ascending SCSI ID order (but it might > be descending, there's a lot of SCSI controller trivia mixed up in my head > from the past twenty years ;). Originally the "internal drive" to skip meant > SCSI device 0 - now it probably means the primary ATA controller.
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