On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 11:57 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 09 March 2003 05:19 am, 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? > > That is lilo remapping your drives from what the BIOS reports so that > Windows can be on the first drive which it likes. Basically it allows > Windows to physically reside on the second drive, while making it think > that it is on the first drive.
But windows is on hde1, which *is* my first hdd. And don't the two lines contradict each other? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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