Which CD Drive is used during boot if have multiple drives

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Published on 2010-04-30T07:08:12Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 7:17 UTC
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I have 7 CD Drives attached to my computer. Now i want to install Linux on computer.

But i am not sure which drive is used when i boot.

I tried once putting in any drive.

The Linux starts but after sometime it says there is Ubuntu Live CD present.

I tried pn computer with one drive and it worked perfectly

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