In this log I mentioned that the Dell Dimension XPS I am running has been extended with a Promise Ultra ATA-100 TX2 IDE card. This has the advantage that, instead of the local IDE’s 33 MHz bus, the PC can now utilize its full 100 MHz bus power. This meant that I could make better use of a new 40 GB hard drive I bought (which can operate at 150 MHz, but hey!). On this newly installed drive Ubuntu Breezy Badger is installed and on the old drive Windows already had been installed. The chain-loader used for Windows gets a bit confused if the Master Boot Record is on this second drive on the second controller, so some fancy Grub settings have to be put into /boot/grub/menu.lst. Here is mine:


# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below
# from the Debian ones.
title Other operating systems:
root

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a
# non-linux OS on /dev/hda1
title Windows
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive

If there are any questions on running Linux on old hardware just let me know.