On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:08:09AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > Now, besides the work I do with BSD, sometimes I work with GNU/Linux > as well. I had to mess a bit with a Debian box, and while it was open > I noticed that I had switched the primary and secondary IDE cabels. It > doesn't matter ofcourse, the machine boots anyway, buuut I like it to > be where it should be, primary master on the primary cabel, so I > switched the cabels. What happened? Well, the machine didn't want to > boot - go figured!! ;-) Had that been my old OpenBSD installation I > would exspect it to have booted off the floppy controller by mistake > and I wouldn't even notice! ;-)))
I guess its because debian boot loader needs to be told where the root fs is by controller/channel/partition, rather than BSD's 'this drive, a'. Doug.
