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.


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