Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> Hello Roy.

 MK> 31 Aug 03 12:24, you wrote to me:

 RT> Not OS/2,  it uses the BIOS to boot,  but not afterwards...

 MK> Exactly the problem!  How the heck do you get it to boot if you 
 MK> cannot get past the bios? 

That part is true of *any* OS,  though.  And the workarounds are pretty
similar for both cases.

 MK> What I had to do was to disable any bios checking of that drive 
 MK> and boot up a different primary, a compactflash in my particular 
 MK> case.  That booted a ramdisk on there which in turn could mount 
 MK> any drive I cared to install into the slidey tray thingy.  Perhaps 
 MK> a simular thing is possible with OS/2, possibly, although 
 MK> doubtful, Windows.  Doesn't really matter though as Linux on older 
 MK> hardware is vastly superior to all others.  No doubt about it.



We know where your biases are,  eh?

 RT> I was looking to move to 9.0,  actually.

 MK> Oh.  Just install it.

Well,  if I had it...

 MK> I wouldn't bother with upgrading as installing is faster and more 
 MK> efficient. Just save whatever files you need from /etc and copy 
 MK> them over later.

The problem with that is losing other stuff besides,  scattered around the
HD here and there.

 RT> I'm not using ext3,  but am thinking about moving to it.

 MK> I like it, although it does require a few more bytes then ext2. 
 MK> Crash recovery is better in ext3.

Yeah,  exactly.  We had a brief power glitch here yesterday morning, 
early.  It only went away for a very short period of time,  but all three
of the computers rebooted.  Fortunately,  it was done with the filesystem
checking well before I woke up.  :-)

Still,  the wait for that can be annoying,  if I'm sitting here watching
it,  and this is something that's only gonna get worse when I get into much
bigger HD space here.

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