Re: sata drives

From: MR (kakomo123_at_nospam.bazar)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:42:11 -0600

usr wrote:
> Hi
> I've had a problem with suse 9.2 detecting an sata drive that I have
> installed. I want to be able to dual boot without having to change the
> boot disk order in the bios every time I need to access that other os. I
> have suse installed on an ide drive set as master, the sata is also set as
> master.

SATA is set on the lowest IDE address that is free.

> Can anyone help me with this one.
> thanks

Have you tried dual boot with the grub, boot loader.
Please read:
        SuSE Linux Adminguide
To get it click SuSE help (third icon in taskbar),
then type "grub" in search, or click on icon with that name.

You can see how to do it in the net:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+Win9x+Grub-HOWTO/intro.html 

--
Have a fun,
Rajko.

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