Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 21 Jul 1996 17:43:52 +0200 | From | loewis@informat ... | Subject | LILO and NT signatures |
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I found that LILO overwrites the disk signatures that the NT disk administrator places on them (apparently into the boot sector). As a result, all user-assigned drive letters are lost in NT, because they apparently rely on those signatures. Has anybody else seen this problem, or knows technical details on those signatures (like where they are located), or even has a fix to LILO to leave them intact?
TIA, Martin
P.S. Just to make this a kernel related message (-: disk signatures are an option to recognize a drive in a world of changing SCSI IDs and minor device numbers. Now, the boot sector is probably to small to store mount information for all operating systems - so we might even share the disk signature with NT, instead of overwriting it.
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