From: gay@fraser.sfu.ca (Ian D. Gay) Subject: Re: How to boot a PC from drive B: Date: 23 Jan 1992 20:18:16 GMT
glover@skorpio.Usask.CA (Ken Glover) writes:
>In article <zhao.696157440@chilko.ucs.ubc.ca>, zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao) writes:
>|> A linux related question: PC is booted from drive A:. can it be done
>|> from drive B:, 1.44 MB, which will give me more space on system disk
>|> to play with.
>|>
>|> zhao@unixg.ubc.ca
>|>
>|> PS Thanks to those who sent me advice, I now have vi (elvis) installed
>|> on root drive and works well.
>The BIOS in the PC will only boot from drive A. The quickest (only?) way to boot from the other drive is to swap your drives so the 1.44 is drive A instead.
Couldn't one just write a simple program to read the first track of
drive B, and jump to it?