Kerblam! by Christopher

Tuesday, December 19
Fancy dualbooting sans bootloader? (GEEK ALERT)

I saw this hack in use on a recent episode of the quality (and all-too-infrequently-published) thebroken, and after some background research it turns out this hack exists, and is doable - you can design a switch so that it makes the motherboard in your computer effectively see the jumpers on two hard drives as one way or the other, depending on whether the switch is on or off (off: sees HDD2 as primary master, on: HDD1 as primary master), so you can dualboot between OSes without needing a bootloader (which can REALLY mess you about) and still access both drives! SUPER funky.

The hack was first shown on a past episode of The Screen Savers, $deity bless the grand master that is Leo Laporte.

Geek alert over, go back to your homes. I'm making a deliberate effort not to post anything Christmas-related, because I loathe and despise this time of year with a PASSION.

Bye for now :D

Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted
into his blog at 12/19/2006 09:48:00 PM. Roughly.
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