[wishie@wishie.net: Re: LILO and multiple disks]

[Travis Place <wishie@wishie.net>]

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On Wed, 16 May 2001 19:04:18 you wrote:
> I see you've got your windoze on the 3rd HDD. The problem with M$-(win)doze 
> is that they HAVE TO RUN from the 1st (primary!) partition on the 1st HDD.
> An exception is Neanderthal Technology, which can be ran from other 
partitions (you still have to have the bootmanager on HDA1, though...)
> 
> Travis Place <wishie@wishie.net> wrote:
> >
> > My computer is set out like this..
> > 
> > /dev/hda1 = linux install
> > /dev/hda2 = linux swap
> > /dev/hdb1 = linux partition
> > /dev/hdc1 = windows partition
> > /dev/hdd1 = linux partition
> > 
> > 
> > im having troubles with lilo, and trying to boot the windows 
> > partition...
> > 
> > i have heard you can use the "map-drive" option of lilo, but i cant 
> > figure out what i have to put in lilo.conf for this to work
> > any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> > Travis (www.wishie.net)
> > 
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i heard you can run it from the secondary controller...you have to do 
something like...


other=/dev/hdc1
	label=windows
	table=/dev/hdc
	map-drive=0x80
	  to=0x82
	map-drive=0x82
	  to=0x80


or something like that....
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