On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 5:00 pm, g wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 1:18 pm, g wrote: > > > > I'm trying to get to grips with both this one and the one that follows > > it. Bear with me, it's brain-spinning <g> > > not having been into hardware, i can understand how it is confusing to you. > > i am looking forward to your comments on 'one that follows'. > > it is almost, 'it works, accept it'. but, such an approach does not answer > your questions. > Trouble is, it doesn't work, and hasn't done since these appeared in lilo - not that I am saying they are to blame, just that the loss of windows and the appearance of these lines happened when I installed 9.0. In fact I have checked back, and it seems that it appeared during the period when I was trying to find out why I could not boot to 8.2 as well as 9.0. It is definitely not in the lilo.conf that I saved at that time.
> > That sounds reasonable. BUT, windows is on hde/hda and Mdk9.0 is on > > hdf/hdb. So why would it want to make further mappings? Isn't that what > > we are trying to achieve? > > first re mapping moves drives from ata100 'logical' position, second moves > them again to proper positions. it would be better to have a single re map, > but for some reason that is not done. why, i can not answer. > Since it was not there from the start, I am beginning to wonder if something I did when trying to understand the multipart lilo booting has caused this, and upset things. > this has me wondering just what you at a loss about. > Sorry - it's just a gut feeling that something is wrong here - and my guts are usually to be trusted <g> > The only thing odd about the setup is this having 2 ATA100 connectors and 2 > ATA66 connectors. > > why is it odd for a mainboard to have 2 ata controllers? > Unusual, would have been more precise than odd. Large drives were, of course, not common or cheap when this mobo came out. I don't see many people bothering with 6 hdds + 2 cds at today's sizes, without a raid mobo. Something is not quite right, here, g. I'm pretty sure that if I wiped the disk and started afresh this would not appear, but I still wouldn't know what had caused it. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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