Boot0 configuration question...

[dick hoogendijk]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 03:35:47 +0300
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:

> On 2004-06-26 00:59, Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund at broadpark.no> wrote:

> > Is this some weirdness of the BIOS? That the onboard IDE controllers
> > are somehow inherently preferred, and that weirdness occurs if
> > drives on any other controller are set to drive 0? It beats me,
> > maybe one of you guys know. Please let me know if you do, as this
> > befuddles me.
> 
> AFAIK it's not a weirdness of the BIOS but of the Windows XP loader,
> which expects that it will be fired up from the first (and only)
> active partition of the first disk.

That's right. /One/ way to deal with this behaviour of windows is to
change the booting devices in the bios. You can also install GAG wich is
absolutely wanderfull!

http://gag.sourceforge.net

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