On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 1:18 pm, g wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 11:59 am, Joerg Mertin wrote: > >>this is actually a BIOS remapping, telling the System to change the > > > > Now I'm really confused. > > > > First, I dpn't have a hda - I think that's something to do with the > > unusual setup on this mobo, which has the usual 2 IDE interfaces + 2 UDMA > > interfaces with a software Promise controller. > > you may not have an hda and hdb, but, when 'what ever' wrote your > 'lilo.conf', it thought you need to have them. > > so, to give them to you, a 1st re mapping is to issue, > disk=/dev/hde bios=0x81 > disk=/dev/hdg bios=0x82 > which ;logically' changes hde to hda, and hdf to hdb, so that bios will > think you have an hda and hdb... > > then because 'what ever' 'thinks' 'windowsOriginal' has to be on hda, which > in fact it does not, it again re wrote what is in bios to move logical hdb > to logical hda, and logical hda to logical hdb. i would guess this to > happen because when 'table=/dev/hde' is seen, it thinks this is not > 'hda/0x80' so it re maps again with, > map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 > map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 > > in effect, hde is 'logically' moved to hdb/0x81, then moved to hda/0x80. > > just a new play on old term 'faking it'. > > hthth.
g - I've been away a couple of days, so I'm just picking this up. If windows is on hde1, and hde has been mapped to appear to be hdb, then windows will not boot. Correct? Does this mean that I should comment out the second mapping and try it? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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