David Cantrell wrote:
John Summerfied wrote:
Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jeremy Katz (katzj@xxxxxxxxxx) said:
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 09:35 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
So, tell me -- is this a crazy idea?
I'm not a big fan... it's good to know that the bootloader setup
actually works after the install rather than 4 weeks later.
But we always get the bootloader setup right!
Besides, it avoids the 'forgot to take the boot CD out, stuck at
isolinux' problem.
If the default's to boot (hd0), I don't see a problem there.
Aside from that, I see BIOSes now that have bootmenus one can pop up
to choose a non-default boot device; on such systems it's the
administrator's choice to have it default (sensibly) to the primary hdd.
Think of !x86 systems.
It's even easier where openfirmware is used (Mac, Sun). I don't know
what IBM does on its Power boxes. On the Zeds, I'd expect a CMS IPL command.
Where OF is used, at worst, one gets to the openfirmware prompt and
enters a boot command.
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Cheers
John
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