where is everyone,

[Ralph W. Reid]

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.


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