Thomas Overgaard wrote:
> Huub wrote :
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>>boot = /dev/hdc (/dev/hda is present, but not powered)
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> Why this strange setup? Why don't you just remove hda and let your
> present hdc be hda? Or why don't you power hda and put the bootloader in
> the mbr at hda?
Because that harddisk actually has FreeBSD installed and is not part of
the Slackware installation. So I shouldn't have called it /dev/hda.
Other pc's with Slack on the third IDE also have either grub or lilo
installed and have no problem booting from harddisk at all.