this is actually a BIOS remapping, telling the System to change the Bios-Mappings for the harddrives from 0x80 -> 0x81 and vice versa, or in better terms, change the the order the harddisks will be presented to the Windows-Boot loader. In the MSDos Times, and windows OS's based on DOS (98, ME etc.), the OS needed to boot from drive 0x80 (Except when using SCSI) or Linux ;).
In your case, the default Old-times boot drive 0x80 (hda) is replaced with the 0x81 (hde) entry, which from your lilo-default configuration is correct. However - I do not know how the global parameters do interact with your /dev/hde1-settings. Never tried it myself.
Cheers
Joerg
Anne Wilson wrote:
In another thread, Mark Watts wrote:
I do have these lines in the global options of my lilo.conf though:
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hdg bios=0x82
This reminded me of another unsolved puzzle on my machine.
In my lilo.conf there is the following stanza:
other=/dev/hde1 label=windowsOriginal table=/dev/hde map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80
I don't know how these last two lines got there. The windows stanza doesn't boot, but that may be because I mistakenly broke the chain of fat partitions. I have restored them, but I probably need to re-install windows, I guess. But that's a different issue.
The point here is that those two lines appear to contradict each other. Is there a point to this? If so, what's happening?
Anne
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