> Errm, many BIOSes I've played with allow you to say whether you "prefer" > the card IDE or the mobo IDE as a boot provider.
That would be an excessively neat function, but I can't find it. What is it called? In order for the box to boot at all from hda (= card), either the third boot device has to be disk-0 or boot-other has to be enabled. (First and second boot device are floppy / cdrom). Removing any active flags from hde (= mobo) makes no difference. Seems like a rather braindead mobo construction to me (and not uncommon) - The PCI disks get first in line, but one still can't boot from them in preference. Doh. > Hackish answer - put a grub or lilo on hde that boots to whatever hda > would be called under those circumstances. Yeah, thought of that - boy I hate that... and apart from being fiddly it's not even robust. Wonder what'll happen once hde becomes the raid1 pair of hda... Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
