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On Monday 12 September 2005 06:43 pm, Covington, Chris wrote: |
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> > Trouble is when the SCSI is replaced and it is not thought of because |
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> the |
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> > OS is on the IDE HD. For me it would be cleaner to boot with a floppy |
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> or |
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> > CD and (even keep a couple of spare floppies). I have trouble |
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> remembering |
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> > certian things, the location of the MBR on SCSI 0 would be one of |
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> those |
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> > things..... |
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> Well it's just as hard to remember that the MBR is on the floppy or the |
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> cdrom as it is on the SCSI disk. |
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> If it's about remembering which SCSI disk, just run a cron job or init |
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> script which installs the Grub MBR in all of your SCSI disks so you |
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> won't have to worry about remembering. |
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Thats an idea, although it isn't that hard remembering the mbr is on a floppy |
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if there is one in teh machine, I don't think any of my other machines have a |
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floppy in them ever, let alone at boot time... |
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