On 03/02/2013 05:02 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote:
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
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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.
Okay, that was an interesting education. Just went to said system in
the BIOS and attempted to select the boot order. This is an Intel
motherboard and because one of the drives is SATA and the other PATA,
the PATA drive (which is the one I _want_ to boot from) does not show up
in the boot priority options.
GRRRRRR...
Howard
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