[97748] in RedHat Linux List
Re: LILO help (Miraculous Linux remaps drives!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose M. Sanchez)
Wed Nov 4 20:34:35 1998
From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: <rfg@nook.net>, "Rich Shepard" <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>, <nr@suk.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:44:33 -0500
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>
>John Mayson wrote:
>>
>> Here's another problem if mine that won't go away.
>>
>> I have two physical hard drives. One (hda) contains Linux. The other
>> (hdc) contains Win95. I want to configure LILO to boot either. Here is
>> my /etc/lilo.conf file...
>
><snip>
>
>Due to brain-deadness of Windows 95, this will not work. It
>will insist on booting off the MASTER drive of the first
>IDE interface. Primary generally. In other words, if there
>is an hda, then it must boot off that one.
>
>Lots of things are possible in Linux, but not in Win95. For
>instance, you cannot install all of Win 95 on Drive D: Note
>that the reason is that the first bootable partition of the
>first drive of the first interface is automatically drive C:
>and it MUST boot off that one.
>
Nope!
Again Linux works another minor miracle...
Rich Shepard had this wonderful solution...
"Use the map-drive command to make it appear to be the first drive when lilo
hands off control. Add these lines to the end of that stanza:
map-drive=0x80
to=0x82
map-drive=0x82
to=0x80
"
I dunno where this originally came from, but it's a real gem!
-JMS
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