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.
-- Greg
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