Moving boot drive - will mac recognize ?????

I'm going to add 2 200gb internal ultra ATA/100 drives to my G4 dual 1ghz MDD. There are only room for 2 ATA/100 drives(rear bay) , and my boot is taking up one of the slots. I was thinking of moving my boot drive to the front bay(ata/66, and installing the 2 new drives to the rear bay. My question is.......... will the mac automatically recognize where I've placed the boot drive??? Or will I need to boot from my install disc to pick the new boot drive??? Also, can someone verify that MDD g4's are set up for large drive support???? thanks

"will the mac automatically recognize where I've placed the boot drive???"
Yes. Physical location of the drive does not matter.

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