Ken Moffat wrote: > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read > text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 02:19:11PM -0700, Alan Womack wrote: > >> <snip>
> Can you go in to the bios and play with the boot order, or tell it > that the IDE drive isn't there ? (no guarantees linux will be able > to find an IDE if the bios has disabled it, but very possible). > On my old PC Chips M-571, I stuck a 60GB IDE into it and BIOS could not recognize it. Linux was perfectly happy with it though. A problem would be in the Grub/Lilo arena: they depend on BIOS information for certain operations. I believe that once udev came into play, BIOS would be irrelevant. > ĸen > -- Wit -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
