BTW, I'll be out of town the next week, so will not be able to respond
to email.
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Erich Stefan Boleyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uruk.org/
Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular
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All this talk about BIOS device numbering has me fired up...
Further discussion: (i.e., ignore if you want ;)
The authors of GRUB and LILO chose different tradeoffs.
LILO uses Linux-style device naming (though there is an override, just an
obscure one), but is still subject, at boot time, to
erich writes:
e FWIW, I came up with a technique some time ago to map from BIOS
e numbers to device hardware using a set of evil/clever (depending
e on your point of view ;) x86 hacks at boot time in GRUB and
e reporting this to the OS (those who have read my old GRUB 0.5
e technical docs
