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From: Bastian Balthazar Bux <BastianBalthazarBux@pnpitalia.it>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] about multiboot with grub
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:30:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41B3A818.8020804@pnpitalia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5491fade041205154347b83c0b@mail.gmail.com>

James Hiscock wrote:

> <snip>
>
>You can try using the "map" command to swap the drives around (as far
>as the BIOS/Windows is concerned):
>
>title=Windows 2000
>map (hd0) (hd1)
>map (hd1) (hd0)
>rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>chainloader +1
>
>...would make your BIOS/Win2K to think that /dev/hdb is /dev/hda, and
>vice versa. Most versions of Windows that I've messed around with
>require being installed to a primary partition on the first hard disk.
>This solution works around that limitation.
>
>  
>
veeery good to know, thanks :)

francesco

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-06  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-05 14:04 [gentoo-user] about multiboot with grub askar ...
2004-12-05 16:18 ` mac
2004-12-05 23:43 ` James Hiscock
2004-12-06  0:30   ` Bastian Balthazar Bux [this message]

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