Re: Grub vs LILO

[Bob Hilliard <bob@bobhilliard.net>]

Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:
 
> >>>>> "Bob" == Bob Hilliard <bob@bobhilliard.net> writes:
>        
>     Bob>       # For booting Windows95 title WIN95 on /dev/hdb1 unhide
>     Bob> (hd1,0) hide (hd0,0) map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd2) (hd1)
>     Bob> rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1
> 
> I didn't think Windows could boot from a slave drive?
> 
> I thought it can only boot from a primary partition on the first
> master drive.

     That is the purpose of the map command in the GRUB menu.  Windows
(or DOS as the case may be) thinks it _is_ booting from the master
drive.   

     Another poster to this list said lilo similarly supports
remapping of drives.  Since I've never used lilo I don't know the
specifics.


Bob
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