On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:33:23AM -1000, Jason Christensen wrote: > You're right about the linux device structure regarding physical disks. I > however am using the same map-drive lines in my lilo.conf as you are, > except I am booting windows from the primary slave (hdb1). Why is it that > the same map-drive lines work for both you and I even though we are > booting from different physical drives?
I think the bios uses 0x80 to refer to the first hard disk, and 0x81 for the second, whichever interface it happens to be on, and it knows to skip cd-roms. I've used 0x81 for both hdb and hdc (I have the same setup as Tom atm). /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz gives examples using the same numbers for SCSI disks too. Matt -- Matt Folwell, Trinity College, Cambridge. CB2 1TQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
