Installing second drive into PowerMac G5

Hi -
The motherboard on my PowerMac G5 recently failed (I know - it's a major bummer). The good news is that the hard drive is still in working order. I'm now borrowing the exact same computer from a friend and am wondering... can I take my original hard drive and install it into his computer as a second drive? Is there anything I need to do or be aware since both drives will have OSX on them? In other words, does the computer automatically know that the hard drive in slot 1 is the master drive?
Thanks for the help!

Hi mikebrain-
Greetings and welcome to the Apple Discussion boards
There actually won't be a jumper to configure "master" or "slave". You will need to boot the machine while holding down the "option" key. A screen will come up asking you which drive you would like to boot from. Select the correct drive.
You can then change the machine to permanently boot from the second drive via the Startup Disk System Preference.
Luck-
-DP

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