external USB hard drive—mounting, messing up boot

[Stuart Jansen]

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 11:17 -0600, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> The frustrating thing is that the/an external drive is not listed as  
> an option in the BIO boot order. And, even if it was, the option to  
> disable items does not exist; you can only change their priority.  
> Very frustrating.

Yup, some BIOS are almost completely useless. Frankly, it's time to
abandon BIOS completely. PPC/SPARC have had something better for a long
time now. Intel has a replacement,  I forget the name, but I understand
it's already standard on MacIntels.

-- 
Stuart Jansen              e-mail/jabber: sjansen at buscaluz.org
                           google talk:   stuart.jansen at gmail.com

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at 
the results." -- Winston Churchill
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