Anne Wilson wrote:
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 theNow I'm really confused.
just a new play on old term 'faking it'.
hthth.
but it did not. :P
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?
incorrect.
}}-> understand a miss understanding, up to and including w98se, }}-> ms os boots active drive and designates it as 'c:\'. es.
1st, go back and re read your lilo.conf. 2nd, re read my last.
lilo maps drives from ata100 controller to _bios_ position 0x81, 0x82. this is not a 'physical', but a 'bios software' position.
at label 'other', bios positions are changed to move 'hde1', now '0x81', to bios '0x80' and bios '0x80' becomes '0x81'.
this is all done in bios memory, where a byte of data can be a binary 'command', or, a binary 'switch', or, a 'pointer'. regardless of what it is, it is located in an assigned place for a specific reason. if you looked at these bytes as they 'may be' in bios they would look on an order of;
normal value assignment 0x80 /dev/hda 0x81 /dev/hdb 0x82 /dev/hdc 0x83 /dev/hdd
0x88 /dev/hde [ 0x88 - 0x8b are example ] 0x89 /dev/hdf [ have yet to see hw byte table ] 0x8a /dev/hdg 0x8b /dev/hdh
1st re mapped 0x80 /dev/hda 0x88 /dev/hdb 0x89 /dev/hdc 0x83 /dev/hdd
0x81 /dev/hde 0x82 /dev/hdf 0x8a /dev/hdg 0x8b /dev/hdh
2nd re mapped 0x88 /dev/hda 0x80 /dev/hdb 0x89 /dev/hdc 0x83 /dev/hdd
0x81 /dev/hde 0x82 /dev/hdf 0x8a /dev/hdg 0x8b /dev/hdh
now that you are more confused, grasp this;
in control of hardware, bytes are bits, and bits are switches. a byte can turn on or off any single device, by bit position.
in assigning devices, 2 bytes used, msb is device type or group. lsb is device in type or group.
as i believe i mentioned else where, ata66 to ata66, ata100 to ata100.
you will need to change lilo.conf and fstab.
but it may end up less of a confusion. ;)
Does this mean that I should comment out the second mapping and try it?
no. try what i just suggested, again. <<bwg>>
that is, unless it works as it is and you are trying to understand why your lilo has drive reassignment and how it is done.
peace out.
tc,hago.
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