Let's have first some background before breaking it all ;-)) I have a board with 2 IDE ports (HighPoint's raid) and 2 "normal" IDE ports. That's why I had to add those 2 disk-stanzas.... I will describe the issues in my board (that might be quite similar to your case):
At startup, BIOS makes raid to be ide 0 and 1, and normal ones 2 and 3. It then tryies to boot from first drive in the first ide available. Let's say it is a master drive in ide 0. We should call it hda. So far so good. The "problem" is that Linux does not use BIOS to do it's I/O, so as soon as it has been loaded into memory it won't use BIOS conventions. In my case it thinks normal ide port's are 0 and 1, and raid ones are 2 and 3, just the opposite as BIOS stated!!! That's all. All you have to do to make thinks easier is to think is how to force a remapping of ide's so as to be the same as BIOS, and you'll get rid of many mistakes. For example, if Linux mappings of hard disks does not match with BIOS ones, and you run lilo to update mbr (OS boot menu) on hda, that drive might not be first drive for BIOS, so it will boot another mbr and you'll be wondering why you are booting with the same menu as always, but nothing to do with the one you have spacified!! All this can be solved by typing into lilo.conf the spells of remaping drives (or by specifing boot=/dev/hd<your_BIOS_boot_drive>, but taking into account that drive is the letter of BIOS remapped to what Linux wnted/was told to). Remapping can be done with disk's or map-drive spells (use disk's, cause map-drive is mainly for DOS and the first one can be used with all OS and it's clearer). Anyway, what you specify is: real_drive --> how_I_want_it_to_be_seen_by_the_OS Now to your point: Try to coment out those 2 stanzas and run lilo to see if Windows will boot. Sincerely, I can't see a reason for them to be there provided there is not a previous remapping of drives in lilo.conf. Anyway it probably won't change much if all partitions in hdf are invisible to Windows. Good luck, and tell us what comes out. El dom, 09-03-2003 a las 13:01, Anne Wilson escribi�: > On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 11:57 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > > 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. > > But windows is on hde1, which *is* my first hdd. And don't the two lines > contradict each other? > > Anne > -- > Registered Linux User No.293302 > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia / \ Spain \ / |__ __| \/ ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versi�n GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y m�s... http://messenger.yahoo.es
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