On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 09:57:46 +0200, Jaime Vives Piqueres
<jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote:

>  As Marabou mentioned, you can't just have boot partitions on slave disks.

Interesting then... how does the BIOS boot from there?

>At least not by simply adding the entry to lilo.conf.

Ah :)

>But it can be done with a little trick: I've done it in the past. 
>The problem is that I don't remember it exactly... it was done 
>with the "map-drive" command to switch the disks. Something like:

>  other=/dev/hdb1
>  label=WinXP
>  table=/deb/hdb
>  map-drive=0x80
>    to=0x81
>  map-drive=0x81
>    to=0x80
>
>  Hope this helps...

Ah, so you want me to lie to my computer? WTF, as if I haven't done it
before :)

Thanks, Jaime, I'll look into it.


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