Drew <[email protected]> wrote: > I was under the impression this was controlled through bios settings. > > On Saturday, March 2, 2013, Howard White wrote: > > > Thank you to one and all that chimed in on the partition discussion. > We > > might all agree that there is no "one size fits all" configuration. > > > > I am trying to resurrect a system where underlying hardware has gone > kaput > > (heck, it's an eight year old kit that's been running 24/7 the > entire time. > > The exact resurrection is not the question. > > > > When one cobbles together a system composed of hard disks that come > from > > all manner origins, what determines _which_ master boot record takes > > precedence??? It would be convenient (but apparently wrong) that > /dev/sda > > would be the primary mbr (sound the klaxon). > > > > Neither wishful thinking nor psychic powers seem to allow me to take > > control of this process. Anybody got any tips? > > > > Howard > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> > > > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the > Google > > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an > > email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > > . > > > > > >
I agree. Most BIOS have a boot sequence setting. The BIOS code runs first; it chains to the Master Boot Record on the selected drive; that chains to the MBR on the active partition; this in turn chains to the operating system startup code. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
