From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) Subject: Re: Booting Linux from Drive B: Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1992 20:57:28 GMT
From: u1amd@ohm.york.ac.uk (Alistair Macdonald)
Date: 1 Jun 92 09:20:52 GMT
Is it possible to modify the Linux boot disk, so that I can boot
from Drive B: ?
That's not a Linux boto disk problem; that's a PC BIOS problem. There's
no way to tell the ROM to boot off of something other than either A: or
C: (and changing the boot order requires running a configuration
program; there's no way to do it just before you boot).
In order to do something that sophisticated, you need something like a
Heathkit H-89 which uses a 2MhZ Z-80 as a processor. :-) And yes, CP/M
also had a more sophisticated hard disk partitioning scheme that what
MS-LOSS uses. Go figure.
- Ted