On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, bruce edge wrote:
> If one has 2 IDE disks connected, both of which have RAID autodetect
> partitions, but are incompatible with the other drive, what determines
> which one wins?
the bios
if hda is not found, it will go to hdb, than to hdc or whatever
you set in the bio
you should use a boot order of: fd->cdrom->hda->hdc->hdb->hdd ...
- some bios tries to get fancy and call it hd0, hd1, first drive,
second drive, third drive, and other whacky names to confuse us
- not sure, but maybe it just boots from the drive the responded faster ??
> The case I've seen is that hdb is winning out over hda, and I was
> wondering why, and, if there's anything that can be done to force one or
> the other?
probably because you didnt install a proper "boot sector" info onto hda
i suspect you can copy the boot info from hdb onto hda and it will
start booting from hda, except the other choice could be neither will boot
afterward .. :-0
- so make sure you can boot off floppy and cdrom before playing
with boot info ( lilo, grub, syslinux, loadlin, ... )
c ya
alvin
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