Re: Dual Boot Problems

[Anthony Lau <anthony@greyweasel.com>]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:11:14PM +0100, Erik Andreas Fjogstad Brandstadmoen wrote:
> David Raeker-Jordan, 
> > other=/dev/hda1
> >         label=win
> >         table=/dev/hda
> > 
> > other=/dev/hdb1
> >         label=winbak
> >         map-drive = 0x80
> >         to = 0x81
> >         map-drive = 0x81
> >         to = 0x80
> >         table=/dev/hdb
> 
> But, does this work if you _don't_ have a copy of win installed on hda1 
> as well? Or does it just work because the win on /dev/hdb1 uses the boot 
> record on /dev/hda1 when it boots?
> 
> Is it possible to use, e.g. /dev/hdb11 to run win98?

You should do the map-drive thing for your windows stanza.
So:

other=/dev/hdd1
	label=Windows
	table=/dev/hdd
	map-drive = 0x80
		to = 0x81
	map-drive = 0x81
		to = 0x80

That's how my stanza is setup.

Now, single HD with multiple OS partitions...never tried,
but you wouldn't have to map-drive since that is just switching
the boot drive. I guess, both Linux and Windows likes to have
their boot drive as drive 1 (0x80).

Anthony