mixing media, was talking debian install.

Glenn glennervin at cableone.net
Tue Apr 10 21:48:42 EDT 2012


I have never run into this as the boot setup by default.
Often the CD drive is third, and I change that to second, but I don't know 
why a manufacturer would ship a computer with the floppy drive not the first 
boot device, unless a customer asks for that configuration.
Glenn

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Kerry Hoath wrote:

>
> And no garantee floppy always trumps hard drive, some bioses do hard drive
> first.
>
> On 10/04/2012 3:58 AM, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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>>  On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 10:30:30AM -0500, Glenn wrote:
>> >  Well, I think the floppy is always there in front of the HD, so a
>> >  bootloader
>> >  on a floppy should fix that problem.
>>
>>  Assuming the system in question has a floppy drive installed.
>>
>>  Greg
>>
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