Steve Holmes staggered into view and mumbled: > . . . >Hey I discovered another great plus for linux over that other OS. >Several times recently I encountered a situation where the BIOS had >trouble auto detecting a drive. When booting with DOS/windows, it >simply hangs! when I boot with a linux boot disk, the machine comes up >fine and it can read all available drives without incident. Linux >doesn't need BIOS to read the drives apparently. I have a dual boot >system here that only boots linux now:)... My system was going to be a dual boot system until my old hard drive with the DOS stuff on it refused to spin up when I moved it from my older system into this one. I had only a little time to work with a sighted assistant, so I threw this system together without a master hard drive. I'm not sure what othre OS's would do with this mess, but with LINUX I boot from a floppy and run everything from the lone slave who hasno master. It seems to be working quite well like this, so I plan to leave it like it is indefinitely. -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. SECANT (x) = TAN (x) / COTAN (x)
