[sclug] isolinux weirdnesses

[David Given]

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 00:44, Alex Butcher wrote:
[...]
> What position does the Shuttle's DVD drive have on the ATA bus? One of my
> machines won't boot from slave devices, meaning that I needed to disconnect
> the CD writer on secondary master and rejumper when I wanted to perform an
> installation from the (faster) DVD drive that was normally a slave.

Secondary master, the absolute standard position... in fact, one of dis's 
hardware requirements is that that's where the optical drive is. (Because it 
means that the CD can get away without a initrd, which I similarly hate.)

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